| A1(16) |
Hopper, 2003 |
USA |
To discuss implicit learning in Alzheimer's disease, followed by a summary of the reality of implementing therapeutic programs in long-term care facilities. |
Individuals with Alzheimer's disease in long-term care settings |
Theoretical/ Review |
Implicit learning may be preserved in individuals with dementia, even with impairments in explicit memory. Techniques such as repeated exposure and errorless learning show good results. The speech-language-hearing pathologist should act early and preventively, with a functional focus, including screenings and continuous reassessments. Intervention also involves guidance for caregivers and adaptation of strategies as the disease progresses. |
Adult language |
| A2(17) |
Anderson and Conture, 2004 |
USA |
To use an age-appropriate version of the syntactic structure priming paradigm to experimentally assess the syntactic processing abilities of children who stutter and children who do not stutter. |
Children who stutter and children who do not stutter |
Experimental |
The main results indicated that children who stutter exhibited slower SRTs in the absence of priming phrases and greater syntactic priming effects than children who do not stutter. |
Fluency disorders |
| A3(18) |
Turkstra and Bourgeois, 2005 |
USA |
To describe a memory therapy technique, Spaced Retrieval (SR), designed to capitalize on preserved procedural memory processes. |
An individual who suffered a traumatic brain injury with profound anterograde amnesia and received SR therapy. |
Case study |
The positive results support future studies on TBI and suggest considering the role of errors in speech and language therapy. |
Adult language |
| A4(19) |
Tomblin et al., 2007 |
USA |
To test the hypothesis of deficits in procedural learning by examining serial reaction time learning in adolescents with and without specific language impairment (SLI). |
Adolescents with and without SLI |
Experimental |
Both groups improved on the implicit learning task (SRT), but adolescents with SLI showed slower learning rates. This difference was observed when the impairment was defined by grammar, but not by vocabulary. |
Child language |
| A5(20) |
Davis et al., 2008 |
USA |
To introduce a novel approach to the treatment of apraxia of speech (AOS) with aphasia using implicit phoneme manipulation via rhyme, omission, and alliteration tasks. |
Subject with AOS and mild aphasia. |
Experimental |
The study showed significant improvement in speech production in children, with small to medium effects for trained sounds (/ʃ/, /ʤ/, /s/). There was generalization to untrained words (T-MAC: 68% to 87%) and noticeable improvement in prosody and articulatory accuracy, confirmed by clinical evaluation by speech-language-hearing pathologists. |
Adult language |
| A6(21) |
Hedenius et al., 2011 |
Sweden |
To examine the consolidation and long-term learning of procedural sequences in children with SLI. |
Children with SLI and typically developing (TD) children |
Experimental |
Although both groups showed evidence of early sequential learning, only TD children had clear signs of consolidation, although the two groups did not differ in long-term learning. When the children were recategorized based on grammatical deficits rather than broader linguistic deficits, a clearer pattern emerged. While both the group with grammatical impairment and the group with normal grammar showed evidence of early sequential learning, only those with normal grammar showed consolidation and long-term learning. In fact, the group with grammatical impairment appeared to lose any sequential knowledge acquired during the initial testing session. These findings held even when controlling for vocabulary or a broad measure of non-grammatical language, neither of which was associated with procedural memory. When grammar was examined as a continuous variable across all children, the same relationships between procedural memory and grammar were observed, but not vocabulary or the broader measure of language. |
Child language |
| A7(22) |
Leonard, 2011 |
USA |
To present a tutorial on structural priming and its relevance to the study of grammatical development and language intervention. |
Not applicable |
Theoretical/ Review |
Evidence from the literature on structural priming provides insights into the transition from early conservative grammatical usage to broader abstract grammatical usage in young children and suggests ways in which language intervention activities can be modified to promote greater grammatical changes in children with language difficulties. |
Child language |
| A8(23) |
Gabriel et al., 2012 |
Belgium |
To evaluate the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) using the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) paradigm, establishing an experimental situation characterized by more learning attempts than in previous studies and using a learning sequence that, more specifically, would test the children's ability to learn complex (i.e., second-order) statistical regularities within the sequence. |
Fifteen children with SLI and their typically developing (TD) peers |
Experimental |
Although in Experiment 1 the children with SLI demonstrated learning, they were slower and made more errors than their TD peers. However, these relative weaknesses disappeared when the nature of the response mode changed (Experiment 2). |
Child language |
| A9(24) |
Silkes et al., 2012 |
USA |
This Phase I study was conducted to investigate the potential effectiveness of masked repetition priming as a treatment for anomia. |
Subject with moderate to severe non-fluent aphasia |
Experimental |
The results revealed a small training effect on the naming of trained items in one category and a pattern of improvement in the other category that did not fully meet the criterion for a small effect. There was also a moderate generalization effect across categories, although no generalization effect was observed for untrained items within semantic categories. Improvements were observed in some measures of general language function. |
Adult language |
| A10(25) |
Rönnberg et al., 2013 |
Sweden |
To examine the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model in light of new behavioral and neural findings on the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in unimodal and bimodal language processing. |
Not applicable |
Theoretical/ Review |
The new ELU model is a meaning prediction system that relies on phonological and semantic interactions in fast implicit and slower explicit processing mechanisms, which depend on WMC, albeit in different ways. It is based on findings that address the relationship between WMC and (a) early attentional processes in speech listening, (b) signal processing in hearing aids and their effects on short-term memory, (c) inhibition of speech maskers and their effect on long-term episodic memory, (d) the effects of hearing impairment on long-term episodic and semantic memory, and finally, (e) auditory effort. |
Audiology |
| A11(26) |
Valitchka and Turkstra, 2013 |
USA |
To describe the communication patterns between hospitalized patients with declarative memory impairments and rehabilitation team members during the initial stage after injury. |
Five adults with acquired brain injury and impairment of declarative memory. |
Cross-sectional study |
The results showed that staff and visitors frequently asked participants declarative questions whose answers were not verifiable (e.g., questions about events prior to the injury). The verifiable answers were often incorrect but were accepted by staff as correct. The results suggest that acute rehabilitation staff may need training to communicate with patients with declarative memory deficits. |
Adult language |
| A12(27) |
Hedenius et al., 2013 |
Sweden |
To examine the learning of procedural sequences in DD beyond a single practice session. |
Twelve children with developmental dyslexia and 17 controls (typically developing children). |
Experimental |
The results suggest that the most pronounced impairment in procedural learning in DD may only emerge after prolonged practice, in learning stages beyond a single practice session. |
Child language |
| A13(28) |
Farias et al., 2014 |
USA |
To promote the understanding and validity of a new treatment for apraxia of speech: implicit phoneme manipulation. |
An individual with apraxia of speech |
Experimental |
Behavioral: The response to implicit training of complex consonant combinations resulted in improvements that were maintained 6 weeks after treatment. Furthermore, this treatment was generalized to simpler consonant combinations in words. Imaging: Functional imaging during implicit phoneme manipulation showed significant activation in brain regions responsible for phonological processing, compared to the baseline semantic task. |
Adult language |
| A14(29) |
Moring et al., 2014 |
USA |
To investigate whether current measures for tinnitus are susceptible to increased error due to priming and, if so, to examine the feasibility of using the Implicit Association Test for an alternative measurement of tinnitus-related distress. |
People with tinnitus |
Experimental |
Although participants with tinnitus did not consider sound-related words to be significantly more negative, and IAT scores did not predict scores on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory, priming did affect negative implicit attitudes toward sound-related words. |
Audiology |
| A15(30) |
Hsu and Bishop, 2014 |
Taiwan |
To test the hypothesis of procedural deficit in specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing the performance of children on two motor procedural learning tasks and one implicit verbal sequence learning task. |
Children aged 7 to 11 years with SLI (n = 48), typically developing children with corresponding age (n = 20), and younger typically developing children with corresponding receptive grammar (n = 28). |
Experimental |
In a serial reaction time task, children with SLI performed at the same level as children with matching grammar but were worse 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 (e.g., chase rotor), children with SLI performed comparably to age-matched children and better than younger grammar-matched controls. Furthermore, poor implicit learning of word sequences was found in a verbal memory task (Hebb effect) in children with SLI. |
Child language |
| A16(31) |
Silkes, 2015 |
USA |
To investigate the effect of repeated exposure to masked identity stimuli combined with images over multiple trials, sessions, and days on the ability of people with anomia to name these images. |
Four participants with anomia |
Experimental |
All participants showed some progress in identifying the trained items, although to varying degrees, and the trained (prepared) items generally showed greater improvement than the untrained items seen the same number of times. Generalization between categories was observed in some participants, but little or no generalization within the category occurred. Minimal changes occurred in measures of overall language ability. |
Adult language |
| A17(32) |
Lee and Man, 2017 |
USA |
To examine the feasibility and effectiveness of implicit structural preparation treatment in an individual with agrammatic aphasia. |
An individual with aphasia |
Case study |
MJ significantly improved the production of prepositional dative sentences, both trained and untrained, throughout the training sessions. These effects were maintained after 4 weeks of follow-up without intervention. He also improved notably in the syntactic complexity of connected speech production, such as increased production of verbs and lexical phrases. |
Adult language |
| A17(33) |
Calder et al., 2017 |
Australia |
To investigate the effectiveness of combined explicit and implicit intervention techniques applied by a speech-language-hearing pathologist to improve receptive and expressive grammar. |
Three children (two boys, one girl) aged 6.2–7.0, with grammatical difficulties. |
Experimental |
Two of the three participants achieved statistically significant gains on standardized tests of receptive and expressive general grammar. Two of the three children showed statistically significant improvement in measures of expressive morphosyntax, with one participant continuing to improve 5 weeks after treatment. |
Child language |
| A19(34) |
Walden and Lesner, 2018 |
USA |
This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter among young adults with normal fluency. |
Adults without stuttering, or with typical fluency, moving towards stuttered speech. |
Cross-sectional study |
The results corroborated the existence of a negative stereotype of stuttering. Participants demonstrated implicit and explicit negative attitudes toward people who stutter. Explicit attitudes toward stutterers, but not implicit attitudes, were significantly predicted by social desirability scores. Familiarity with stuttering was significantly associated with implicit, but not explicit, attitudes toward stuttering. |
Fluency disorders |
| A20(35) |
Garraffa et al., 2018 |
United Kingdom |
To investigate whether a group of children with Developmental Learning Disorder showed impairment in implicit syntax learning (syntactic priming) after individual syntactic experiences, and the temporal course of such effects. |
Children aged 5 to 6 years, Italian speakers, with Developmental Learning Disorder and typically developing controls, matched for age and language. |
Experimental |
Children with Developmental Learning Disorder showed immediate syntactic priming, but it was less intense and less lasting than that of typically developing children of the same age. The effect did not persist after intermediate sentences, and there was no cumulative priming effect in any group. |
Child language |
| A21(36) |
Lee et al., 2019 |
USA |
To examine whether people with aphasia exhibit preserved and lasting structural priming effects during the interpretation of syntactically ambiguous sentences, and whether these priming effects occur independently or in conjunction with lexical (verbal) information. |
People with aphasia and healthy older adults |
Experimental |
After reading a priming sentence with a specific interpretation, healthy older adults and people with aphasia tended to interpret an ambiguous priming sentence in a target sentence in the same way and with faster response times. Importantly, both groups continued to exhibit this priming effect over time (Experiment 2), although the effect was not as reliable in terms of response times. However, neither group showed lexical (verb-specific) priming enhancement, deviating from the strong lexical enhancement observed in young adults in previous studies. |
Adult language |
| A22(37) |
Man et al., 2019 |
USA |
To investigate whether lexically independent priming (abstract structure) and/or lexically specific priming (verb) produces an immediate and more lasting facilitation of syntactic production in people with aphasia. |
Seventeen individuals with aphasia (PWA) and 20 healthy older individuals |
Experimental |
Healthy older adults demonstrated abstract priming in transitive and dative cases, not only in the immediate priming condition (Experiment 1) but also in the long-lasting priming condition (Experiment 2). They also demonstrated significantly increased priming by verbal overlap (lexical reinforcement) in transitive cases during immediate priming. Individuals with aphasia demonstrated abstract priming in transitive cases in both immediate and long-lasting priming conditions. However, the magnitude of priming was not increased by verbal overlap. |
Adult language |
| A23(38) |
Kamhi, 2019 |
USA |
To analyze how the development of speech and language can be viewed as proceduralization and skill learning. |
Individuals with speech and language disorders. |
Theoretical/ Review |
Norm-referenced measures provide a good measure of deliberative speech and language processes, while social conversations and discourses on familiar topics with familiar listeners provide the best indication of proceduralized speech and language processes. Intervention goals and planning need to consider which speech and language operations should be proceduralized and which will primarily require deliberative processing. Further research and clinical application of these ideas are clearly needed to develop more precise criteria that define the dividing line between deliberative and proceduralized speech and language processes. |
Child language |
| A24(39) |
Walden et al., 2020 |
USA |
To assess implicit and explicit attitudes toward stuttering and those who stutter among speech-language-hearing pathologists. |
Speech-language-hearing pathologists |
Cross-sectional study |
As a group, clinicians demonstrated negative implicit attitudes toward stuttering. Explicit attitudes toward a person who stutters were positive, although less positive than attitudes toward a person who does not stutter. The amount of prior exposure to stuttering among these experienced speech-language-hearing pathologists was not significantly associated with implicit or explicit attitudes. |
Fluency disorders |
| A25(40) |
Wada et al., 2020 |
USA |
To examine the use of structural priming combined with a focused reformulation procedure to obtain subject- and object-centered relative clauses, in students with developmental language disorders (DLD) and typically developing (TD) students. |
26 children (13 DLD, 13 TD), aged 6;10 to 10;11 (years; months) |
Experimental |
DLD and TD children were more accurate in producing subject-focused relative clauses than object-focused ones. However, children with DLD required more attempts to achieve consistent performance in both types of structures, indicating a slower learning rate. |
Child language |
| A26(41) |
Evans, 2021 |
USA |
To discuss the concept of implicit bias in the field of audiology. |
Not applicable |
Theoretical/ Review |
This article discusses implicit biases and prejudices in audiological practice, including the underrepresentation of Black professionals, socioeconomic and linguistic bias, and audism. It highlights how these factors affect the way information is shared with families and proposes an affirmative and culturally sensitive approach to clinical communication. |
Audiology |
| A27(42) |
Maziero et al., 2021 |
Brazil |
To compare the performance of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with that of healthy older adults in a text inference comprehension task, and to determine the best predictors of performance in this skill, considering a verbal episodic memory task and two semantic tasks. |
Individuals with mild cognitive impairment and healthy older adults |
Cross-sectional study |
Patients with MCI performed worse than healthy older adults; there were no differences between the MCI subgroups (amnesic and non-amnesic). The best predictors for making inferences were verbal memory in the MCI group and semantic tasks in the non-MCI group. |
Adult language |
| A28(43) |
Hedenius et al., 2021 |
Sweden |
To examine whether prolonged initial practice in Session 1 would normalize procedural consolidation in children with developmental dyslexia. |
Children with Developmental Dyslexia and typically developing children |
Experimental |
The amount of sequence learning was similar in both groups at the end of session 1 (p=0.797, η ρ 2 = 0.001). In the follow-up session after 24 hours, the DD group performed worse than the TD group (p=0.003, η ρ 2 = 0.129). The amount of sequence knowledge in Session 2 predicted a single variance in reading fluency (p=0.024, η ρ 2 = 0.083), independently of the children's phonemic awareness and inattention symptoms. |
Child language |
| A29(44) |
Kautto and Mainela-Arnold, 2022 |
Finland |
Deficits in procedural learning have been hypothesized to contribute to language, especially grammatical difficulties, in individuals with specific language impairment (SLI). This study tested this hypothesis by examining serial reaction time (SRT) learning in adolescents with and without SLI. |
Adolescents who had been identified with SLI and adolescents with normal language. |
Experimental |
Adolescents with SLI showed slower learning rates during pattern learning than controls. When language impairment was defined in terms of grammatical impairments, similar slower learning rates were found, but when language impairment was based on vocabulary, no group differences were found. |
Child language |
| A30(45) |
Baron and Arbel, 2022 |
USA |
To present evidence of the interaction between implicit and explicit learning systems and to highlight the characteristics of the intervention that promote implicit or explicit learning, as well as outcome measures that explore implicit or explicit knowledge. |
Not applicable |
Theoretical/ Review |
Many intervention features (e.g., instructions, elicitation techniques, feedback) can be manipulated to move an intervention along the implicit-explicit continuum. Given the bias toward the use of explicit learning strategies that develops throughout childhood and into adulthood, clinicians should be aware that most interventions (even those that promote implicit learning) will engage the explicit learning system. However, a greater awareness of both implicit and explicit learning systems and their cognitive demands will allow clinicians to choose the most appropriate intervention for the target behavior. |
Child language |
| A31(46) |
Tabrizi et al., 2022 |
USA |
Repetitive priming has been suggested as a method for addressing implicit processes in the treatment of anomia. Previous studies have used masked priming for this purpose. This study expands on that work with visible priming, a more clinically feasible approach. |
Three participants with aphasia. |
Experimental |
All participants improved in identifying trained items immediately after treatment, with greater improvements for trained items than for untrained items. All participants maintained some degree of improvement on trained items 3 months after treatment, although the degree varied among participants. Inconsistent generalization occurred for unexposed items. Improvements were observed in some areas of broader language, although these varied. |
Adult language |
| A32(47) |
Norotsky et al., 2023 |
USA |
To understand the role of implicit racial bias in auditory-perceptual evaluations of dysphonic voices, determining whether there is a bias effect for novice listeners in their auditory-perceptual evaluations of Black and White speakers. |
Postgraduate students in speech and language pathology at Boston University |
Experimental |
Both Black and White speakers were classified as less severely dysphonic when their race was labeled as Black. |
Voice |
| A33(48) |
Lopez et al., 2023 |
USA |
To determine how the manner of L2 acquisition can affect interlinguistic generalization after L2 treatment, focusing separately on lexicon (object naming) and grammar (sentence construction). |
Two Spanish-English bilinguals with aphasia. |
Experimental |
As predicted, P2 showed interlanguage generalization after verb/grammar treatment (VNeST), while P1 did not. However, contrary to the prediction that both participants should show interlanguage generalization after noun treatment (SFA), only P1 showed interlanguage generalization in object naming. |
Adult language |
| A34(49) |
Silkes, 2023 |
USA |
To expand the evidence for the treatment of anomia based on repetition priming. |
Five participants with chronic aphasia |
Quasi-experimental |
Items previously activated by priming resulted in greater improvements in naming than those that were only practiced but without priming. The data suggest that the gains may extend beyond the direct association with the trained stimuli. There was variation in the maintenance and generalization effects. |
Adult language |
| A35(50) |
Lee et al., 2024 |
USA |
To examine the impact of aging on the strength and longevity of the effects of abstract structural priming and lexical reinforcement. |
Younger and older adults |
Experimental |
In immediate priming, older adults showed abstract structural priming and lexical increase in transitive and dative cases, similar to that observed in younger adults. In long-term priming, only the effects of abstract priming were significant in both groups of participants, with no evidence of age-related priming reduction. |
Adult language |
| A36(51) |
Beadle et al., 2024 |
Canada |
To investigate the perceptions of older and younger adults about older and younger adults who use hearing aids. |
Thirty older adults and 30 younger adults who reported not having hearing aids or diagnosed hearing impairment. |
Cross-sectional study |
In both IATs, older and younger participants responded faster and more accurately when images of individuals using hearing aids were paired with negative words compared to positive words. Photo ratings did not vary in relation to the presence or absence of hearing aids for any age group. |
Audiology |
| A37(52) |
Montgomery et al., 2024 |
USA |
We propose that implicit learning, including syntactic preparation, holds therapeutic promise for improving the syntactic knowledge of children with developmental language disorder (DLD). |
Children with developmental language disorders (DLD). |
Theoretical/ Review |
Statistically induced block-based learning is a powerful driver of syntactic learning, and syntactic priming is one form of this learning. Repeated episodes of priming during everyday linguistic interactions lead children to create abstract and global syntactic representations in long-term memory. We offer some reflections on an implicit language intervention approach focusing on syntactic priming. |
Child language |
| A38(53) |
Balthazar and Scott, 2024 |
USA |
To present key concepts that highlight the importance of guiding schoolchildren and adolescents with developmental language disorders (DLD) through complex sentences. |
Schoolchildren and adolescents with DLD |
Theoretical/ Review |
Complex sentence structures represent a fundamental challenge for students with DLD when dealing with discipline-specific academic and linguistic tasks. Sentence complexity treatment programs employ one or more treatment methods, including priming, modeling, reformulation, contextualization, metalinguistic instruction, and sentence combination. Although studies have consistently demonstrated measurable improvement in complex sentence production in proximal outcomes, regardless of the treatment approach, evidence of lasting functional changes in students with DLD remains scarce. We encourage new treatments that target the comprehension and production of complex sentences in real-life academic contexts, clinical practice, and research. |
Child language |
| A39(54) |
Morton-Jones and Sund, 2024 |
USA |
To explain the impactful role that speech-language-hearing pathologists and voice clinicians can play in daily clinical practice to promote health equity, mitigating the well-documented negative effects of implicit personal biases in the health field and offering culturally responsive practices. |
Speech-language-hearing pathologists and voice clinicians |
Theoretical/ Review |
Evidence suggests that implicit bias has a serious impact on daily clinical practice and dialogue. Within the complexities of accessing healthcare, a clinician creates barriers or enablers that determine the acceptability and accessibility of the care offered. Unaddressed implicit bias and a lack of culturally responsive practices can reduce the quality of care and ultimately prevent a patient from seeking behavioral voice services. |
Voice |