I examine the phenomenon of implicit learning, the process by which knowledge about the rale- governed complexities of the stimulus environment is acquired independently of conscious attempts to do so. Our research with the two, seemingly disparate experimental paradigms of synthetic grammar learning and probability learning is reviewed and integrated with other approaches to the general problem of unconscious cognition. The conclusions reached are as follows: (a) Implicit learning produces a tacit knowledge base that is abstract and representative of the structure of the environment; (b) such knowledge is optimally acquired independently of conscious efforts to learn; and (c) it can be used implicitly to solve problems and make accurate decisions about novel stimulus circumstances. Various epistemological issues and related prob- 1 lems such as intuition, neuroclinical disorders of learning and memory, and the relationship of evolutionary processes to cognitive science are also discussed
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Reber, A. S. (2019). Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge. In Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness (pp. 603–630). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2834.003.0047
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