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...Schacter's research, Caviness says, will enable neurologists to see correlated defects and better understand the brain as a parallel processor...
...Schacter's research should provide a greater ability to understand and diagnose neurological disorders. Because we do not knowingly retrieve implicit memories in our daily lives, we may be unaware of memory disorders in these systems...
Exploring implicit memory is not only useful in locating the source of dysfunction, but also in rehabilitation. According to Associate Professor of Neurology Sandra Weintraub, Schacter's research demonstrates that patients suffering from memory disorders possess information they are unable to access through usual routes. As seen in the example of Ms. H., implicit memory may provide such an alternate route...
...What Schacter has shown is that patients who have a disturbance of the memory system...can demonstrate an ability to remember some aspects of what was previously known," she says...
Cary R. Savage, a clinical fellow in psychology, said that while Schacter's techniques are accepted by the majority of neuroscientists, including himself, some in the field question whether implicit memory is really an unconscious process. Others, he says, believe that conscious awareness could be found in what is considered implicit memory if one could find the right way to question subjects...