Statistical Learning Ability Influences Adults' Reading of Complex Sentences.
The goal of the present study was to investigate whether a relationship exists between statistical learning ability and sentence processing ability in adult readers and whether this relationship depends on the participant's exposure to print. Fifty participants read syntactically complex sentences w...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 117 - 132 |
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Canadian Psychological Association
Jun2026
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