Specific Deficit in Implicit Motor Sequence Learning following Spinal Cord Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical and psychosocial rehabilitation following spinal cord injury (SCI) leans heavily on learning and practicing new skills. However, despite research relating motor sequence learning to spinal cord activity and clinical observations of impeded skill-learning after SCI, implicit procedural learning following spinal cord damage has not been examined.

Objective

To test the hypothesis that spinal cord injury (SCI) in the absence of concomitant brain injury is associated with a specific implicit motor sequence learning deficit that cannot be explained by depression or impairments in other cognitive measures.

Methods

Ten participants with SCI in T1-T11, unharmed upper limb motor and sensory functioning, and no concomitant brain injury were compared to ten ma

SUBMITTER: Bloch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4927174 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature