Can a person with a damaged medial-temporal lobe learn a category implicitly? To address this question, we compared the performance of participants with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to that of age-matched controls in a standard implicit learning task. In this task, participants were first presented a series of objects, then told the objects formed a category, and then had to categorize a long ...

Implicit learning has been thought to be unaffected by intentions, yet recent studies suggest that it may be improved by goal pursuits (e.g., Eitam, Hassin, & Schul, 2008). This effect occurs even though the trigger for goal motivation is unrelated to the learning task at hand. These studies did not use clearly implicit tasks. The present study examined whether implicit learning is enhanced by ...

recently, researches on motor learning have illustrated that learning with effortless process supports learning under psychological stress. also, contextual interference and practice specificity theories are among those theories which investigate desired practice conditions. the current study aimed at identifying cognitive effort and effortless process based on contextual interference and pract...

The ability to learn and exploit environmental regularities is important for many aspects of skill learning, of which language may be a prime example. Much of such learning proceeds in an implicit fashion, that is, it occurs unintentionally and automatically and results in knowledge that is difficult to verbalize explicitly. An important research goal is to ascertain the underlying neurocogniti...

OBJECTIVE Recent research has identified specific cognitive deficits in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), including impairment in executive functioning and attention. Another such cognitive process, implicit category learning has been less studied in AN. This study examined whether implicit category learning is impaired in AN. METHOD Twenty-one women diagnosed with AN and 19 control women ...

There is mounting evidence for the idea that performance in a visuomotor rotation task can be supported by both implicit and explicit forms of learning. The implicit component of learning has been well characterized in previous experiments and is thought to arise from the adaptation of an internal model driven by sensorimotor prediction errors. However, the role of explicit learning is less cle...

The hippocampus is crucial for conscious, explicit memory, but whether it is also involved in nonconscious, implicit memory is uncertain. We investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging whether implicit learning engages the hippocampus and interacts with subsequent explicit learning. The presentation of subliminal faces-written profession pairs for implicit learning was followed by t...

Experiments using the Serial Response Time Task (SRTT) have suggested that implicit learning is impaired in people with autism. Implicit learning is learning that occurs without explicit awareness of the knowledge being acquired. Researchers have suggested that poor implicit learning could be a major factor in other profound learning difficulties exhibited by people with autism. In this report,...

Implicit learning is thought to underlie the acquisition of many skills including reading. Previous research has shown that some forms of implicit learning are reduced in individuals with dyslexia (e.g., sequence learning), whereas other forms are spared (e.g., spatial context learning). However, it has been proposed that dyslexia-related motor dysfunction may have contributed to the implicit s...