Procedural or declarative deficit in adults with developmental dyslexia? A study of Artificial grammar learning
Giuliana Nardacchione, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Chiara Valeria Marinelli · 2026
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Giuliana Nardacchione and colleagues test adults with developmental dyslexia on an artificial grammar task to sort out which memory system falters. One theory blames the brain system that learns habits and sequences, while rival reviews blame other systems or shared pattern learning. The task asks people to judge new strings of letters built by hidden rules.
Adults with dyslexia leaned more on how common small letter pairs were, using surface frequency to guide their answers on fresh items. That reliance points to statistical cue use covering for a weaker rule-learning route. Earlier clashes in the field may stem from studies mixing several learning parts in one task. Cleaner tasks like this one can help schools and clinics pin down what reading support should target.
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| CREATOR | Giuliana Nardacchione, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Chiara Valeria Marinelli |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 83 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |