Beginning with Fitch and Hauser (2004), a number of studies
have used the Artificial Grammar Learning task to investigate
learning rules generating hierarchical structural relations
among sequences of elements that are characteristic of the
grammar of human languages. Studies that have examined the
learning of a center-embedding rule (AnBn rule) exemplified
by the sentence, The dogs the girl the boys like feeds bark
incessantly have provided mixed results. We present the
results of three experiments that demonstrate learning when
training occurs incrementally (e.g., Lai & Poletiek, 2011) and
requires feedback when testing with a grammaticality
judgment task. We also use a novel completion task, which
demonstrated learning both with and without feedback. In all
cases, not all participants learned the rule.