" Purposeful behavior typically exists from (implicitly and explicitly) learned series of events. " This is a typical justification for research on serial learning. Indeed, it seems to be a sound and legitimate endeavour to try and probe the cognitive and neural foundations of serial learning – because life would be much more effortful without this ability. For example, think about parking your...

Fifteen adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 18 age- and IQ-matched adults with typical development (TD) completed a serial reaction time task (SRT) to examine possible motor-linked implicit learning impairments in persons with ASD. Measures were taken to decrease the role of explicit learning in the SRT. Results showed that participants with AS...

This paper explores the interaction between implicit and explicit processes during skill learning, in terms of top-down learning (that is, learning that goes from explicit to implicit knowledge) versus bottom-up learning (that is, learning that goes from implicit to explicit knowledge). Instead of studying each type of knowledge (implicit or explicit) in isolation, we stress the interaction bet...