Implicit memory

Implicit memory is that part of memory, which affects behavior and experience of people without kicking it into consciousness. The term serves to delimit the explicit memory, which contains, among other things, the autobiographical or episodic memory, that memory contents can be reported verbally on the. An important part of implicit memory is procedural memory, are stored in the automated action sequences such as walking, cycling etc..

Show can be the work of an implicit memory among other priming effects. When a stimulus implicit memory traces activated by the processing of a subsequent stimulus can be influenced. Thus, a word ( for example, " anesthesia " ) by association unconsciously a word field ( here: "Operation " ) Set so that a second word is recognized faster or easier ( for example, " scalpel ").

Familiarity caused by multiple contacts without having to be consciously perceived. The Mere Exposure Effect, according to which we evaluate things according to mere perception of positive based mostly on the implicit memory. This can also lead to the fact that we view as true statements only reason, because we have heard this before (so-called truth effect).

Also, the conditioned learning remains generally in implicit memory.