Since Tulving proposed a distinction in memory between semantic and episodic memory,
considerable effort has been directed towards understanding their similar and unique …

To account for dissociations observed in recognition memory tests, several dual-process
models have been proposed that assume that recognition judgments can be based on the …

Conceptual and procedural knowledge of mathematics represents a distinction that has
received a great deal of discussion and debate through the years. Questions of how …

E LIMINATIVE materialism is the thesis that our commonsense conception of psychological
phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both …

Memory for a recent event can be expressed explicitly, as conscious recollection, or
implicitly, as a facilitation of test performance without conscious recollection. A growing …

Two experiments, with 64 undergraduates (Exp I) and 12 20–67 yr old amnesic patients and
2 control groups (12 22–81 yr olds and 24 undergraduates with no memory deficits [Exp II]) …

A major goal of psychology is to understand the underlying organization of cognition--that is,
to develop formal accounts of cognitive processes, information flow, and representations …

Recent studies of animals with complex nervous systems, including humans and other
primates, have improved our understanding of how the brain accomplishes learning and …

HM became amnesic in 1953. Since that time, nearly 100 investigators, first at the Montreal
Neurological Institute and since 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have …

Research on implicit cognition and addiction has expanded greatly during the past decade.
This research area provides new ways to understand why people engage in behaviors that …