Comparison of implicit motor learning and explicit motor learning in patients with schizophrenia

Deficits in various areas such as pathways involved in motor learning and cognitive performance in schizophrenia patients is somewhat evident. The aim of the present study was to compare two types of implicit motor learning and explicit motor learning in patients with schizophrenia.
This study was retrospective (comparison). The present research community, including those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (aged 25 to 40 years) by a psychiatrist at a rehabilitation center and hospital Behravan martyr farmers in Sari City. The study sample consisted of 35 patients with schizophrenia in explicit learning group (n = 18) and implicit learning (n = 17) who were selected by convenience sampling. Software for data collection to measure the SRT (serial reaction time task) was used. To analyze the data using SPSS version 16 and Whitney U test with Kalmvgraf- and Smirnov were used.
The results of this study showed that the two groups of patients with schizophrenia implicit and explicit motor learning the response time for the first day and the eighth was not statistically different in the two first blog (P> 0/05).Also, the number of errors on the first day and changes in response-time were not significantly different between the two groups of patients with implicit motor learning and explicit motor learning schizophrenia (P> 0/05). But the number of errors in blogs, the blog eighth of first day and the second blog of second day, there weresignificantly different between explicit and implicit motor learning schizophrenia (P= 0/04).
The study found that patients with schizophrenia implicit motor learning in terms of learning were a little weaker than their counterparts did in explicit motor learning.