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Reply To: The Man with the 7 Second Memory (Year 2 Sun.)

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5th April 2020 at 1:44 pm #5090
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Indeed, explicit memory requires conscious recall, whereas implicit doesn’t.
But that’s not the point here. Consolidation of information from STM to LTM takes place in the hippocampus. Implicit memory is stored in a completely different brain structure – the basal ganglia. Have a look.