Implicit and explicit memory tasks are interpreted within a traditional memory theory that distinguishes associations between different classes of memory units (sensory features, logogens, imagens, concepts, context tags). Associations from specific sensory features to logogens are strengthened by perceptual experiences, leading to specific perceptual priming. Associations among concepts are st...

The investigation of human mcmory has undergone a major transformation during the past decade, characterized by Richardson-Klavehn & Bjork (1988) as a "revolution in the way that we measure and interpret the influence of past events on current experience and behavior ̄.." (pp. 476-77). It is not clear whether this transformation should be viewed as paradigm shift, as Kuhn (1962) suggested, or, m...