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Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment
This study tested the procedural deficit hypothesis of specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing children’s performance in two motor procedural learning tasks and an implicit verbal sequence learning task. Participants were 7- to 11-year-old children with SLI (n = 48), typically developing age...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24410990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12125 |
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description | This study tested the procedural deficit hypothesis of specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing children’s performance in two motor procedural learning tasks and an implicit verbal sequence learning task. Participants were 7- to 11-year-old children with SLI (n = 48), typically developing age-matched children (n = 20) and younger typically developing children matched for receptive grammar (n = 28). In a serial reaction time task, the children with SLI performed at the same level as the grammar-matched children, but poorer than age-matched controls in learning motor sequences. When tested with a motor procedural learning task that did not involve learning sequential relationships between discrete elements (i.e. pursuit rotor), the children with SLI performed comparably with age-matched children and better than younger grammar-matched controls. In addition, poor implicit learning of word sequences in a verbal memory task (the Hebb effect) was found in the children with SLI. Together, these findings suggest that SLI might be characterized by deficits in learning sequence-specific information, rather than generally weak procedural learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-40317432014-05-23 Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment Hsu, Hsinjen Julie Bishop, Dorothy VM Dev Sci Papers This study tested the procedural deficit hypothesis of specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing children’s performance in two motor procedural learning tasks and an implicit verbal sequence learning task. Participants were 7- to 11-year-old children with SLI (n = 48), typically developing age-matched children (n = 20) and younger typically developing children matched for receptive grammar (n = 28). In a serial reaction time task, the children with SLI performed at the same level as the grammar-matched children, but poorer than age-matched controls in learning motor sequences. When tested with a motor procedural learning task that did not involve learning sequential relationships between discrete elements (i.e. pursuit rotor), the children with SLI performed comparably with age-matched children and better than younger grammar-matched controls. In addition, poor implicit learning of word sequences in a verbal memory task (the Hebb effect) was found in the children with SLI. Together, these findings suggest that SLI might be characterized by deficits in learning sequence-specific information, rather than generally weak procedural learning. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-05 2014-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4031743/ /pubmed/24410990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12125 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Developmental Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Papers Hsu, Hsinjen Julie Bishop, Dorothy VM Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title | Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title_full | Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title_fullStr | Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title_full_unstemmed | Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title_short | Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
title_sort | sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment |
topic | Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24410990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12125 |
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