implicit memory

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im·pli·cit mem·o·ry

preferences, skills, and activities that can be acted on or performed without conscious thought; motor memories of tasks that can be performed without conscious awareness of what is necessary to perform them.

Synonym(s): nondeclarative memory, unconscious memories

implicit memory

Recall that is preserved when the patient is given a cue to help retrieve information but deficient without such cues.

Synonym: nondeclarative memory

See also: memory

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Certainly his kind have left horrible unconscious memories in all warm-blooded life.

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Children of survivors gradually become aware of their parents' pain as they struggle through the conscious and unconscious memories of the atrocities of war.

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The eye movements corresponded to activity in the hippocarnpus, a learning and memory center in the brain, suggesting that eye movements can reveal unconscious memories activated in the hippocampus.

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