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The concept of implicit learning and memory has important considerations in the treatment of a variety of allied health-related issues.

Implicit learning underlies the unconscious acquisition of a wide range of novel sequential patterns we use every day such as language and motor skills. Repeated experience (i.e., practice) with such patterns allows us to establish strong representations in long-term memory, which, in turn, leads to fast, automatic, and typically faithful retrieval and use of these patterns. Children and adults with language impairment and/or those with motor difficulties due to injury can pose interesting treatment challenges to clinicians.

The symposium panelists will offer their insights into the virtues of implicit learning and memory as an important consideration in the potential treatment of language impairment and motor difficulties related to injury.

PANELISTS INCLUDE: 

Jim Montgomery, Ph.D. – School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences “Implicit Learning-Memory and DLD Sentence Comprehension: Findings and Treatment Implications”

Dustin Grooms, Ph.D. – School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences “Embracing Implicit Sensorimotor Processing to Prevent Injury”

Chorong Oh, Ph.D. – School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences “Stimulating implicit memory to assist people with Alzheimer’s disease in maintaining functional independence”

Nicholas Karayannis, Ph.D. – School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences “Intersections of theoretical pain models – implicit theory, psychological flexibility, and motor adaptations”

Additional details will be shared as the event date approaches.