Polster M R, McCarthy R A, O'Sullivan G, Gray P A, Park G R
Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.
Brain Cogn. 1993 Jul;22(2):244-65. doi: 10.1006/brcg.1993.1037.
In order to examine how the distinction between implicit and explicit memory might relate to theories regarding the organization of memory, two types of memory tests were administered in conjunction with the amnesia-inducing benzodiazepine midazolam. Performance on an implicit task (perceptual facilitation in identifying degraded pictures and words) was relatively unimpaired by midazolam, whereas performance on an explicit task (recognition memory) was severely impaired. Interpreting the results in both the implicit/explicit framework and an independent stage analysis suggests that the terms implicit and explicit may reflect something about the nature of the memory representation and need not be reserved solely to describe classes of memory tasks.
为了研究内隐记忆和外显记忆之间的区别可能如何与有关记忆组织的理论相关，两种类型的记忆测试与诱发失忆的苯二氮䓬类药物咪达唑仑一起进行。在内隐任务（识别退化图片和单词时的知觉促进）上的表现相对未受咪达唑仑影响，而在外显任务（识别记忆）上的表现则严重受损。在隐式/显式框架和独立阶段分析中对结果进行解释表明，内隐和外显这两个术语可能反映了有关记忆表征性质的某些内容，而不必仅仅用于描述记忆任务的类别。
