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Volitional control in the learning of artificial grammars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Peter A. Bibby
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom{pal; gju}@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
Geoffrey Underwood
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom{pal; gju}@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk

Abstract

Dienes & Perner argue that volitional control in artificial grammar learning is best understood in terms of the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge representations. We maintain that direct, explicit access to knowledge organised in a hierarchy of implicitness/explicitness is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain volitional control. People can invoke volitional control when their knowledge is implicit, as in the case of artificial grammar learning, and they can invoke volitional control when any part of their knowledge representation is implicit, as can be seen by examining “feeling of knowing” phenomena.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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