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Dienes and Berry (1997) argue that there really are two kinds of knowledge, implicit and explicit, that can be characterized through a subjective threshold. We argue that the subjective threshold does not separate two forms of knowledge, but instead two uses of knowledge, for two different purposes. With Neal and Hesketh (1997), we suggest that an understanding of learning will be better served by investigating the processing that occurs under various circumstances than by attempting to isolate learning that occurs with awareness from that which occurs without it.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Whittlesea, B.W.A., Dorken, M.D. Implicit learning: Indirect, not unconscious. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4, 63–67 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210775
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