CHSP’s Fall Symposium virtual event to feature OHIO experts, panel discussion about implicit learning, memory

OHIO’s College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP) will host a fall symposium that will highlight the knowledge and research of multiple college faculty on Friday, Nov. 19 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

The event, which is open to the entire campus community, will be hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams. Online registration is now available.

Each symposium panelist 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 and discussion topics include:

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

Dustin Grooms, Ph.D.
School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences
Topic: Embracing Implicit Sensorimotor Processing to Prevent Injury

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

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

Implicit learning and memory affects how each of us acts, reacts

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.

Additional information about the event is available online through OHIO’s Calendar of University Events.