Assessing the Formation of Experience-Based Gender Expectations in an Implicit Learning Scenario.

ABSTRACT: The present study investigates the formation of new word-referent associations in an implicit learning scenario, using a gender-coded artificial language with spoken words and visual referents. Previous research has shown that when participants are explicitly instructed about the gender-coding system underlying an artificial lexicon, they monitor the frequency of exposure to male vs. female referents within this lexicon, and subsequently use this probabilistic information to predict the gender of an upcoming referent. In an explicit learning scenario, the auditory and visual gender cues are necessarily highlighted prior to acqusition, and the effects previously observed may therefore depend on participants' overt awareness of these cues. To assess whether the formation of experience-based

SUBMITTER: Ottl A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5594219 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature