30.493, Books: Sequential learning, domain generality, and developmental dyslexia: Capel

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Subject: 30.493, Books: Sequential learning, domain generality, and developmental dyslexia: Capel

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:45:30
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Sequential learning, domain generality, and developmental dyslexia: Capel

 


Title: Sequential learning, domain generality, and developmental
dyslexia 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/sequential-learning-domain-generality-and-developmental-dyslexia 


Author: Desiree Capel

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933080 Pages: 303 Price: Europe EURO 35.00


Abstract:

This thesis explores sequential learning, the implicit learning of item
sequences with a specific statistical structure. Two research questions were
investigated. The first is whether sequential learning is a domain-general
learning mechanism. Both 8-month-old infants and adults were tested on their
sequential-learning capabilities in more than one domain. The infants were
tested in the (auditory) language and in the visuospatial domains, the adults
also in the visual domain. Neither the infant nor the adult experiments
provided a conclusive answer, because performance on sequential learning did
not correlate significantly or strongly across domains in either age group.
The second research question is whether sequential learning is affected in
developmental dyslexia. Both 8-month-old infants at familial risk of dyslexia
and adults with dyslexia were tested in the same sequential-learning
experiments as their peers without (a risk of) dyslexia. Results related to
this question were mixed. The at-risk infants showed an indication of
visuospatial sequential learning that was not observed in the typically
developing infants. More research is needed to interpret this outcome. In
adults with dyslexia, poorer performance of language sequential learning was
found. No clear differences between adults with and without dyslexia were
found in the visual and visuospatial experiments.

The question of the domain generality of sequential learning could not be
decisively answered, and no support was obtained for a general deficit in
sequential learning in dyslexia. The results may, however, point to slightly
reduced sequential-learning capabilities in the language domain in adults with
dyslexia.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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