Learning of a Sequential Motor Skill Comprises Explicit and Implicit Components That Consolidate Differently

Learning of a sequential motor skill comprises explicit and implicit components that consolidate differently.

The ability to perform accurate sequential movements is essential to normal motor function. Learning a sequential motor behavior is comprised of two basic components: explicit identification of the order in which the sequence elements should be performed and implicit acquisition of spatial accuracy for each element. Here we investigated the time course of learning of these components for a firs...

Implicit and Explicit Processes in Motor Learning

Study of Explicit Knowledge Effects on Implicit Motor Learning in Older Adults

Objective: The motor skill performance and learning in older adults are of a great importance. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether older adult’s explicit knowledge effect on implicit learning and motor performance and which are typical for rehabilitation and skills acquired in older adults. Materials & Methods: In this comparative study a serial reaction time task by u...

comparison of implicit and explicit motor sequence learning in children with adhd and their typical peers

introduction: the aim of this study was to assess of both implicit and explicit motor sequence learning in children with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (adhd) and typical peers , by serial reaction time task. materials and methods: the sample size for each group was 12. the study sample was included 24 children with adhd, in explicit learning group and implicit learning group.  and 2...

Implicit learning of a perceptual-motor skill after stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A motor skill can be learned implicitly, without awareness of what is being learned. The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of adults who had unilateral stroke to learn implicitly a perceptual-motor task. SUBJECTS Subjects were 47 people who were poststroke and 36 control subjects. METHODS Participants performed sequences of hand movements in response to...