Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While
earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal …

The term “memory” typically refers to conscious retrieval of events and experiences from our
past, but experience can also change our behaviour without corresponding awareness of …

Learning while asleep is a dream of mankind, but is often deemed impossible because
sleep lacks the conscious awareness and neurochemical milieu thought to be necessary for …

Various studies suggest that non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, especially slow-wave
sleep (SWS), is vital to the consolidation of declarative memories. However, sleep stage 2 …

Textbooks divide between human memory systems based on consciousness. Hippocampus
is thought to support only conscious encoding, while neocortex supports both conscious and …

Relational inference denotes the capacity to encode, flexibly retrieve, and integrate multiple
memories to combine past experiences to update knowledge and improve decision-making …

Episodic memory is the memory for experienced events. A peak competence of episodic
memory is the mental combination of events to infer commonalities. Inferring commonalities …

Our episodic memory stores what happened when and where in life. Episodic memory
requires the rapid formation and flexible retrieval of where things are located in space …

Recent evidence suggests that humans can form and later retrieve new semantic relations
unconsciously by way of hippocampus—the key structure also recruited for conscious …

While it is generally agreed that perception can occur without awareness, there continues to
be debate about the type of representational content that is accessible when awareness is …