Examining implicit procedural learning in tetraplegia using an oculomotor serial reaction time task.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Clinical observations indicate that implicit procedural learning, a central component of physical and psychosocial rehabilitation, is impeded following spinal cord injury. In accordance, previous research has revealed a specific deficit in implicit sequence learning among individuals with paraplegia using a standard, manual version of the serial reaction time task. To extend these findings and shed light on the underlying sources of potential spinal cord injury-related deficits in sequence learning, we used an ocular activated serial reaction time task to compare sequence learning performance between individuals with tetraplegia and healthy controls.

Participants and measures

Twelve participants with spinal cord injury in C5-T1 were compared to 12 ma

SUBMITTER: Bloch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7179886 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature