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Procedural Learning and Individual Differences in Language
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Procedural Learning and Individual Differences in Language

Joanna C Lee and J. Bruce Tomblin
Language learning and development, Vol.11(3), pp.215-236
07/03/2015
DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2014.904168
PMCID: PMC4504686
PMID: 26190949
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http://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2014.904168View
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Abstract

The aim of the current study was to examine different aspects of procedural memory in young adults who varied with regard to their language abilities. We selected a sample of procedural memory tasks, each of which represented a unique type of procedural learning, and has been linked, at least partially, to the functionality of the corticostriatal system. The findings showed that variance in language abilities is associated with performance on different domains of procedural memory, including the motor domain (as shown in the pursuit rotor task), the cognitive domain (as shown in the weather prediction task), and the linguistic domain (as shown in the nonword repetition priming task). These results implicate the corticostriatal system in individual differences in language.

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