Leonard SW Li
Hong Kong
Review Article
Rehabilitation Programme to Promote Task Relearning and Generalisation after Stroke: A Review of Literature
Author(s): Karen PY Liu, Chetwyn CH Chan, Nikki Tulliani, Marcus CK and Leonard SW LiKaren PY Liu, Chetwyn CH Chan, Nikki Tulliani, Marcus CK and Leonard SW Li
Background and Purpose: The relearning of functional skills following a stroke is an essential part of the
rehabilitation process. Rehabilitation post stroke may facilitate an individual to return to independent living. However,
the skills learnt during this process do not necessarily transfer to the skills required for daily functioning. This review
addresses the issue of generalisation of skills learnt by discussing the connectionist model.
Summary of Review: Connectionism models how the human brain functions and stipulates that the units in an
input layer feed their activations forward to the units in the hidden layer for interpretation and then to the output layer
for execution. These units are connected and distributed in a connectionist network. The activation of clusters of
units in retrained tasks will provide signals to other d.. View More»
