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Everything about Explicit memory
Type of long-term human memory
Explicit memory is one of the two main types of long-term human memory, the other of which is implicit memory. Explicit memory is the conscious, intentional recollection of factual information, previous experiences, and concepts. This type of memory is dependent upon three processes: acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Explicit memoryA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A meta-analytic review of the relationship between explicit memory bias and depression: Depression features an explicit memory bias that persists beyond a depressive episode.Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Implicit memory and metacognitionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Implicit and explicit memory bias in anxiety.Cited 162 times
- Go sideways: Long-term memoryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Hippocampal memory encoding and retrievalA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Implicit and explicit memory bias in anxiety.
Explicit Reasoning, Confirmation Bias, and Illusory Transactive Memory
Transfer-appropriate processing for implicit and explicit memory.
Sleep enhances explicit recollection in recognition memory
Implicit and Explicit Memory following Surgical Anesthesia
Explicit memory in pregnant women
Explicit memory in anxiety disorders.
Implicit and explicit memory after focal thalamic lesions
🆕 Influential since 2022
A meta-analytic review of the relationship between explicit memory bias and depression: Depression features an explicit memory bias that persists beyond a depressive episode.
What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces
Inhibitory temporo-parietal effective connectivity is associated with explicit memory performance in older adults
Neurophysiological mechanisms of implicit and explicit memory in the process of consciousness
Solriamfetol improves chronic sleep fragmentation-induced increases in sleep propensity and ameliorates explicit memory in male mice
📚 Books worth reading
Implicit memory and metacognitionLynne M. Reder · 1996
Theories of Memory IIMartin A. Conway, Cesare Cornoldi · 1998- 📕You AgainDebra Jo Immergut · 2020
Varieties of memory and consciousnessEndel Tulving, Henry L. Roediger · 1989- 📕Implicit and explicit learningChris B. Stark · 1999
- 📕Unconscious influences on memoryC. Scott Spillman · 1998
The development of implicit and explicit memoryCarolyn K. Rovee-Collier · 2001
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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