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...example, subjects are read a list of words before they are presented with the first several letters of a word, such as "cra." When asked to complete the word, the implicit memory begins to work; a subject is more likely to create a word he or she has recently heard (such as cradle) than to choose a different, unrelated word (such as crave...
Heidi L. Roth '87 is currently studying implicit and explicit memory, two classifications of memory which indicate whether a subject is conscious of remembering. She will graduate from the Medical School this June and pursue a residency in neurology...
Roth's research has shown that brain-damaged patients often retain their implicit memory; she uses word tests to study patients' implicit memory...
...implicit assumptions seems to govern Muhammad's logic. These assumptions relate either to his definition of "Western" or to his understanding of when Western history begins. In the cultural lexicon upon which we depend to communicate, "Western" is conceived as referring to the European/Mediterranean world. The role of Blacks in the early development of Western history was, therefore, necessarily limited. Contact with Africa remained confined to coastal regions as late as the year 1600 and de Gama did not even round the coast of Africa until 1498. In refusing this truth, perhaps Muhammad is implicitly asserting that the word "Western...
...Implicit in Muhammad's assertion that "white folks do lie" is, therefore, the assumption that anything displeasing is a lie and, as a logical consequence, anything displeasing to think that Blacks were not responsible to think that Blacks were not responsible for Western" or the beginning of Western history in such a way that the displeasure is removed. Truth is now reduced entirely to the subjective--a magic wand with which we manage to delude ourselves that the outer world conforms to our desires rather than a rigid measure by which we attempt to deduce the nature of reality regardless...