Higher-Order Associative Learning in Amnesia: Evidence from the Serial Reaction Time Task

Abstract

W Patients with anterograde amnesia are commonly believed learning of higher-order information. Despite seemingly normal to exhibit normal implicit learning. Research with the serial learning effects on average, the results suggest that amnesic reaction time (SRT) task suggests that normal subjects can patients do not learn higher-order information as well as con-implicitly learn visuospatial sequences through a process that trol subjects. These results suggest that amnesic patients have is sensitive to higher-order information that is more complex an associative learning impairment, even when learning is im-than pairwise associations between adjacent stimuli. The pre- plicit, and that the medial temporal lobe and/or diencephalic sent research reexamined SRT learning in a group of amnesic brain areas typically damaged in cases of amnesia normally patients with a design intended to specifically address the contribute to implicit sequence learning.