Explicit and implicit locomotor learning in individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke.

ABSTRACT: Motor learning involves both explicit and implicit processes that are fundamental for acquiring and adapting complex motor skills. However, stroke may damage the neural substrates underlying explicit and/or implicit learning, leading to deficits in overall motor performance. While both learning processes are typically used in concert in daily life and rehabilitation, no gait studies have determined how these processes function together after stroke when tested during a task that elicits dissociable contributions from both. Here, we compared explicit and implicit locomotor learning in individuals with chronic stroke to age- and sex-matched neurologically intact controls. We assessed implicit learning using split-belt adaptation (where two treadmill belts move at different speeds). We assess

SUBMITTER: Wood JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10871205 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature