Implicit learning deficit in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Evidence for a cerebellar cognitive impairment?

This study aimed at comparing implicit sequence learning in individuals affected by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy without intellectual disability and age-matched typically developing children. A modified version of the Serial Reaction Time task was administered to 32 Duchenne children and 37 controls of comparable chronological age. The Duchenne group showed a reduced rate of implicit learning even if in the absence of global intellectual disability. This finding provides further evidence of the involvement of specific aspects of cognitive function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and on its possible neurobiological substrate.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2018-01-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0191164PMID 29338029PMCID 5770044
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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