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“The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Humans Can Extract Unconscious Bigram Knowledge in the Artificial Grammar Learning Task

2026-02-17

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<p>Humans often appear to possess knowledge they cannot fully articulate. For instance, in the landmark artificial grammar learning (AGL) task, participants acquire a complex regularity (grammar) that generates letter sequences, while typically claiming to have little or no subjective access to the regularity, thus suggesting that learning has been largely unconscious. A highly influential argument against this co...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fj5nd_v1

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