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Article: The case for implicit category learning
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- Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article evaluates the evidence regarding the claim that people can learn a novel category implicitly-that is, by an implicit memory system that is qualitatively different from an explicit system. The evidence that is considered is based on the prototype extraction task, in which participants
are first exposed to a set of category exemplars under incidental learning instructions and are then required to categorize novel test items. Knowlton and Squire (1993) first reported that memory-impaired patients performed normally on the prototype extraction task while being impaired on a comparable recognition task. Several studies have replicated these results, but other articles have ...
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