ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR LEARNING IN ANIMALS

• Authors: Tauzin Tibor Miklós

Title variants

HU

A társas életmód hatása a mesterséges nyelvtan tanulására embernél és állatoknál

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

In this article I review the artificial grammar learning experiments in comparative psychology from the last one and a half decades. Artificial grammar learning in animals will be discussed targeting statistical learning, algebraic learning and hierarchical rule learning. Furthermore, I propose a new model which can explain some of the contradictory results in this field. I argue that social species necessarily have refined contingency detection mechanisms, which allows them to monitor contingencies between various stimuli. This mechanism and a repetition detector, which is sensitive to identical successive stimuli, create abstract contingency-profiles. These can help to recognize repetitive abstract signs, thus a part of algebraic or hierarchical rules.

Keywords

EN

artificial grammar; comparative psychology; statistical learning; algebraic learning; hierarchical rule learning; contingency detection; repetition detector

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 389-412
• Document type: REVIEW

Contributors

author

Tauzin Tibor Miklós