Implicit ruminations

Abstract

Various points of agreement and disagreement with the two target papers are indicated. Support is voiced for Dienes and Berry's (1997) argument that the implicit-explicit dissociation should be determined by invoking subjective criteria and for Neal and Hesketh's (1997) outlining of the problems associated with the very concept of consciousness. However, criticisms are offered for Neal and Hesketh's proffered solution to that problem and their unhappy decision not to include the transfer literature, and for the failure of the authors of both papers to recognize the importance of neurocognitive evidence.