Social feedback interferes with implicit rule learning: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

The human brain can learn contingencies built into stimulus sequences unconsciously. The quality of such implicit learning has been connected to stimulus social relevance, but results so far are inconsistent. We engaged participants in an implicit-intentional learning task in which they learned to discriminate between legal and illegal card triads on the sole basis of feedback provided within a staircase procedure.

When some triggers a scalar inference out of the blue. An electrophysiological study of a Stroop-like conflict elicited by single words.

Some studies in experimental pragmatics have concluded that scalar inferences (e.g., 'some X are Y' implicates 'not all X are Y') are context-dependent pragmatic computations delayed relative to semantic computations.

Some Alternatives? Event-Related Potential Investigation of Literal and Pragmatic Interpretations of Presented in Isolation.

In sentence verification tasks involving under-informative statements such as , some adults appear more tolerant to pragmatic violations than others. The underlying causes of such inter-individual variability remain however essentially unknown. Here, we investigated inter-individual variation in adults deriving the scalar inference "not all" triggered by the quantifier .