Open Peer Commentary Dienes & Perner: Implicit and explicit knowledge
Volitional control in the learning of artificial grammars
Peter A. Bibby a1andGeoffrey Underwood a1 a1 School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
{pal; gju}@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract
Dienes & Perner argue that volitional control in artificial
grammar learning is best understood in terms of the distinction between
implicit and explicit knowledge representations. We maintain that
direct, explicit access to knowledge organised in a hierarchy of
implicitness/explicitness is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain
volitional control. People can invoke volitional control when their
knowledge is implicit, as in the case of artificial grammar learning,
and they can invoke volitional control when any part of their knowledge
representation is implicit, as can be seen by examining “feeling
of knowing” phenomena.
