Intact procedural memory and impaired auditory statistical learning in adults with dyslexia.

ABSTRACT: Developmental dyslexia is a reading disorder that is associated with atypical brain function. One neuropsychological theory posits that dyslexia reflects a deficit in the procedural memory system, which supports implicit learning, or the acquisition of knowledge without conscious awareness or intention. This study investigated various forms of procedural learning in adults with dyslexia and typically-reading adults. Adults with dyslexia exhibited typical skill learning on mirror tracing and rotary pursuit tasks that have been well-established as reflecting purely procedural memory and dependent on basal ganglia and cerebellar structures. They also exhibited typical statistical learning for visual material, but impaired statistical learning for auditory material. Auditory statistical learni

SUBMITTER: Ozernov-Palchik O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805067 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature