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Understanding Implicit Memory

Understanding Implicit Memory Dissociations betweenimplicit and explicit memory have attracted considerable attention in recent memoryresearch. A central issue concerns whether such dissociations require the postulation ofseparate memory systems or are best understood in terms of different processes operatingwithin a single system. This article presents a cognitive neuroscience approach toimplicit memory in general and the systems-processes debate in particular, which draws onevidence from research with brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging techniques, and nonhumanprimates. The article illustrates how a cognitive neuroscience orientation can help tosupply a basis for postulating memory systems, can provide useful constraints forprocessing views, and can encourage the use of research strategies that the author refersto as cross-domain hypothesis testing and cross-domain hypothesis generation,respectively. The cognitive neuroscience orientation suggests a complementary role formultiple systems and processing approaches. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Psychologist American Psychological Association

Understanding Implicit Memory

American Psychologist , Volume 47 (4): 11 – Apr 1, 1992

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0003-066x
eISSN
1935-990X
DOI
10.1037/0003-066X.47.4.559
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Abstract

Dissociations betweenimplicit and explicit memory have attracted considerable attention in recent memoryresearch. A central issue concerns whether such dissociations require the postulation ofseparate memory systems or are best understood in terms of different processes operatingwithin a single system. This article presents a cognitive neuroscience approach toimplicit memory in general and the systems-processes debate in particular, which draws onevidence from research with brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging techniques, and nonhumanprimates. The article illustrates how a cognitive neuroscience orientation can help tosupply a basis for postulating memory systems, can provide useful constraints forprocessing views, and can encourage the use of research strategies that the author refersto as cross-domain hypothesis testing and cross-domain hypothesis generation,respectively. The cognitive neuroscience orientation suggests a complementary role formultiple systems and processing approaches.

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American PsychologistAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Apr 1, 1992

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