The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Balazs Aczel, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor *Is there such a thing as implicit learning?* Abstract: Consistent with the basic dichotomous propensity of human thinking, binary descriptions of memory and learning processes (e.g., conscious – unconscious; declarative – procedural; short-term – long-term etc.) became principles of our understanding of human cognition. The crucial question, however, remains as to whether we have sufficient empirical evidence to sustain such distinctions. While recent theories started to postulate the existence of more than two memory systems (e.g., McDonald, Devan, & Hong, 2004), other researchers argue that the empirical data can be explained in a single-model view (e.g., Berry, Shanks, & Henson, 2008). I will start my talk from a single-process learning viewpoint and discuss whether there is enough contradictory empirical evidence to abandon this position. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu