School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Conscious Cogn. 2012 Mar;21(1):476-86. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.12.009. Epub 2012 Jan 23.
The study aims to help characterize the sort of structures about which people can acquire unconscious knowledge. It is already well established that people can implicitly learn n-grams (chunks) and also repetition patterns. We explore the acquisition of unconscious structural knowledge of symmetry. Chinese Tang poetry uses a specific sort of mirror symmetry, an inversion rule with respect to the tones of characters in successive lines of verse. We show, using artificial poetry to control both n-gram structure and repetition patterns, that people can implicitly learn to discriminate inversions from non-inversions, presenting a challenge to existing models of implicit learning.
本研究旨在帮助人们认识到哪些类型的结构可以被无意识地习得。人们可以无意识地学习 n-gram（块）和重复模式，这已经得到了充分的证实。我们探索了无意识地掌握对称结构知识的方法。中国的唐诗使用了一种特殊的镜像对称，即诗句中字符的声调反转规则。我们使用人工诗歌来控制 n-gram 结构和重复模式，结果表明，人们可以通过无意识学习来区分反转和非反转，这对现有的无意识学习模型提出了挑战。
