Perner, Josef and Dienes, Zoltan (1999) Deconstructing RTK: how to explicate a theory of implicit knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (5). pp. 790-801.

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Abstract

In this response, we start from first principles, building up our theory to show more precisely what assumptions we do and do not make about the representational nature of implicit and explicit knowledge (in contrast to the target article, where we started our exposition with a description of a fully fledged representational theory of knowledge (RTK). Along the way, we indicate how our analysis does not rely on linguistic representations but it implies that implicit knowledge is causally efficacious; we discuss the relationship between property structure implicitness and conceptual and nonconceptual content; then we consider the factual, fictional, and functional uses of representations and how we go from there to consciousness. Having shown how the basic theory deals with foundational criticisms, we indicate how the theory can elucidate issues that commentators raised in the particular application areas of explicitation, voluntary control, visual perception, memory, development (with discussion on infancy, theory of mind [TOM] and executive control, gestures), and finally models of learning.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Zoltan Dienes
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:40
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2019 14:53
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13800

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