Sleep-dependent Neurophysiological Processes in Implicit Sequence Learning

Sleep-dependent Neurophysiological Processes in Implicit Sequence Learning

Behavioral studies have cast doubts about the role that posttraining sleep may play in the consolidation of implicit sequence learning. Here, we used event-related fMRI to test the hypothesis that sleep-dependent functional reorganization would take place in the underlying neural circuits even in the possible absence of obvious behavioral changes. Twenty-four healthy human adults were scanned a...

Intact implicit probabilistic sequence learning in obstructive sleep apnea.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) belongs to the sleep-related breathing disorders and is associated with cognitive impairments in learning and memory functions. The impairments in attention-demanding cognitive functions such as working memory and executive functions are well established in OSA; however, it remains unknown if less attention-demanding implicit sequence learning is affected. In the p...

Implicit sequence learning in children.

The main purpose of the present study was to examine whether implicit learning abilities, assessed by means of a serial reaction time task, are present to the same extent in 6- and 10-year-old children as in adults. We also wondered whether the knowledge acquired after one learning session is retained after a 1-week delay. And finally, we studied the explicit knowledge developed by the children...

Implicit and Explicit Processes in Motor Learning

Implicit and Explicit Processes in Phonotactic Learning

Recent years have seen a proliferation of adult phonological-learning studies (“artificial-language” experiments) employing a wide array of experimental tasks, instructions, and materials (reviewed in Moreton & Pater 2012a,b), in the hope of gaining experimental access to the inductive processes underlying firstor secondlanguage acquisition. But there has been little investigation into what is ...