Phases of procedural learning and memory: characterisation with perceptual-motor sequence tasks.

ABSTRACT: Procedural learning and memory has been conceptualised as consisting of cognitive and autonomous phases. Although the Serial Reaction Time Task (SRTT) is a popular task used to study procedural memory (PM), it has not been used to explore the different phases of PM. The present study employed a modified SRTT and investigated whether it can distinguish phases of PM. Our results revealed that performance at the beginning of typing a repeating sequence was marked by a steep learning curve, followed by gradual improvements and ending in high performance levels without further improvement. Steep performance increases characterise the effortful learning of the cognitive phase, gradual increases at higher performances characterise emerging automatisation of the associative phase, and sustained hi

SUBMITTER: Hong JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8048153 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature