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The Neuroscience of Implicit Learning
Author(s) -
Williams John N.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/lang.12405
Subject(s) - psychology , implicit learning , cognitive science , natural (archaeology) , grammar , language acquisition , natural language , sequence learning , cognitive psychology , linguistics , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , cognition , philosophy , mathematics education , archaeology , history
Over the past decades, research employing artificial grammar, sequence learning, and statistical learning paradigms has flourished, not least because these methods appear to offer a window, albeit with a restricted view, on implicit learning processes underlying natural language learning. But these paradigms usually provide relatively little exposure, use meaningless stimuli, and do not even necessarily target natural language structures. So the question arises whether they engage the same brain regions as natural language. The aim of this review is to use data from brain imaging, brain stimulation, and the effects of brain damage to identify the main brain regions that show sensitivity to structural regularities in implicit learning paradigms and to consider their relationship to natural language processing and learning.