I am interested in the role that elementary learning processes play in behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes are
implicit, that is, they occur without intention and without resulting in verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things we
learn about, such as language, are learnt without concomitant awareness of the relevant information. The main thrust of my research in
this controversial domain consists of formulating computationally explicit theories of the learning mechanisms involved in different
tasks and of exploring the theories' implications empirically. For a number of principled reasons (see downlodable paper Principles for Implicit Learning), the connectionist framework appears
best suited to capture many aspects of human implicit learning performance, and hence that is the framework that I work with.
Much of my work makes use of recurrent connectionist networks as theoretical models and of a sequential choice reaction time learning task as the experimental paradigm of choice.
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