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. 2014 Sep 25;5:1084. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01084

Table 1.

Experimental AGL studies by grammar's chart, TE value, and No. of stimuli and participants' number, age, and task performance accuracy.

Publication AGL grammar Participants
No. Researchers Year Chart TE No. of stimuli Sample/M age in years N Accuracy in %
1. Scott and Dienes 2008 A: Reber1969 0.560 45 22 40 69.00
2. Kirkhart 2001 A: Reber1969 0.560 75 Students 12 61.40
3. Domangue et al. 2004 B: Mathews1989 0.578 88 Students 46 70.00
4. Reber 1967 C: Reber1967 0.602 28 Students 5 73.50
5. Reber 1967 C: Reber1967 0.602 28 Children 5 65.20
6. Zizak and Reber 2004 C: Reber1967 0.602 60 Students 30 62.00
7. Zizak and Reber 2004 C: Reber1967 0.602 60 Students 29 62.00
8. Zizak and Reber 2004 C: Reber1967 0.602 60 Students 25 58.00
9. Zizak and Reber 2004 C: Reber1967 0.602 60 Students 34 59.00
10. Servan-Schreiber and Anderson 1990 C: Reber1967 0.602 20 Students 9 68.90
11. Rosas et al. 2010 C: Reber1967 0.602 16 7.31 15 47.00
12. Poznanski and Tzelgov 2010 C: Reber1967 0.602 160 Students 12 67.50
13. Conway and Christiansen 2006 C: Reber1967 0.602 54 Students 10 62.00
14. Skosnik et al. 2002 D: Skosnik2002 0.603 50 Students 23 65.10
15. Skosnik et al. 2002 D: Skosnik2002 0.603 50 Students 23 57.40
16. Peigneux et al. 1999 E: Meulemans1997 0.686 51 63 17 56.13
17. Danion et al. 2001 E: Meulemans1997 0.686 51 33.7 14 74.80
18. Conway and Christiansen 2006 F: Conway2006 0.716 54 Students 10 66.00
19. Conway and Christiansen 2006 F: Conway2006 0.716 54 Students 10 58.00
20. Pavlidou et al. 2009 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 69 6.48 16 59.37
21. Knowlton and Squire 1996 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 46 63.8 18 63.50
22. Chang and Knowlton 2004 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 46 Students 30 62.50
23. Chang and Knowlton 2004 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 46 Students 35 64.70
24. Don et al. 2003 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 48 23 27 66.00
25. Pavlidou et al. 2010 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 8 9.3 16 55.00
26. Pavlidou and Williams 2010 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 8 Children up to 12 16 60.00
27. Pothos and Kirk 2004 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 69 Students 74 49.00
28. Pothos et al. 2006 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 60 Students 10 67.20
29. Pothos et al. 2006 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 60 Students 10 64.80
30. Horan et al. 2008 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 46 18–25 43 58.00
31. Pothos and Bailey 2000 G: Knowlton1996 0.740 69 Students 24 59.00
33. Pothos et al. 2006 H: Reber1978 0.761 60 Students 20 55.40
33. Pothos et al. 2006 H: Reber1978 0.761 60 Students 20 53.30
34. Pothos 2005 H: Reber1978 0.761 40 Students 16 61.87
35. Rüsseler et al. 2006 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 32.75 12 64.10
36. Perruchet and Pacteau 1990 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 Students 30 63.30
37. Reber and Perruchet 2003 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 Students 15 55.60
38. Reber and Perruchet 2003 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 Students 15 56.20
39. Reber and Perruchet 2003 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 Students 20 55.30
40. Smith et al. 2001 H: Reber1978 0.761 23 68.36 14 57.90
41. de Vries et al. 2009 H: Reber1978 0.761 100 22.6 20 66.40
42. Jamieson and Mewhort 2010 H: Reber1978 0.761 20 Students 39 60.00
43. Jamieson and Mewhort 2010 H: Reber1978 0.761 40 Students 47 63.00
44. Knowlton and Squire 1994 I: Brooks1991 0.856 16 62.4 6 62.50
45. Knowlton and Squire 1994 I: Brooks1991 0.856 16 64.9 11 60.90
46. Meulemans and Van der Linden 1997 I: Brooks1991 0.856 16 Students 20 55.60
47. Meulemans and Van der Linden 1997 I: Brooks1991 0.856 32 Students 20 54.10
48. Higham 1997b I: Brooks1991 0.856 32 Students 20 58.00
49. Gebauer and Mackintosh 2007 I: Brooks1991 0.856 60 11–32 103 66.42
50. Tunney 2005 I: Brooks1991 0.856 32 19.42 42 58.00
51. Newell and Bright 2003 I: Brooks1991 0.856 80 Students 30 51.30
52. Higham 1997a I: Brooks1991 0.856 48 Students 24 64.00
53. Higham 1997a I: Brooks1991 0.856 48 Students 40 50.00
54. Higham 1997a I: Brooks1991 0.856 48 Students 40 52.00
55. Witt and Vinter 2011a J: Witt2011 0.916 48 5–7 40 50.00
56. Witt and Vinter 2011b J: Witt2011 0.916 48 5–7 10 50.00

AGL, artificial grammar learning. The different grammar charts (A through J) can be seen on Figure 1. TE, topological entropy. Number of stimuli = amount of test items (strings). Students = university students. The 10 charts are presented in ascending order of complexity.