The Serial Reaction Time Task: Implicit Motor Skill Learning?

The serial reaction time task: implicit motor skill learning?

Since its development 20 years ago, the serial reaction time task (SRTT) has gone from being a tool used by psychologists (Nissen and Bullemer, 1987) to one that, in the last few years, has been embraced by a wider community (Fig. 1). Embedded within this task is a sequence, a connected series of events, that engages processes supporting the temporal organization of behavior, the formation of h...

Implicit Motor Learning after Unilateral Stroke Using Serial Reaction Time Task

Introduction: Motor skills and learning after stroke are of a great importance. This study aimed at studying implicit learning in unilateral stroke patients using affected hand and comparison with normal subjects. Methods: A serial reaction time task by using a software was applied for studying implicit motor learning in 15 stroke patients and 15 matched normal subjects. In this task 4 squar...

Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in the Serial Reaction Time Task

Motor learning by observation: evidence from a serial reaction time task.

This study sought evidence of observational motor learning, a type of learning in which observation of the skilled performance of another person not only facilitates motor skill acquisition but does so by contributing to the formation of effector-specific motor representations. Previous research has indicated that observation of skilled performance engages cognitive processes similar to those o...

Stimulus-dependent modulation of perceptual and motor learning in a serial reaction time task

In two experiments, we investigated the impact of spatial attributes on the representation acquired during a serial reaction time task. Two sequences were used, in which structural regularities occurred either in the horizontal or in the vertical locations of successive stimuli. After training with the dominant hand, participants were required to respond with the non-dominant hand to either the...