Implicit Learning

Axel Cleeremans is a research director with the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium, and a professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he directs the Center for Research in Cognition & Neuroscience and the ULB Neuroscience Institute. Viktor Allakhverdov is a prominent Russian psychologist and chairperson of the division of General Psychology, St. Petersburg State University. He is the author of more than 5 books on consciousness and the head of a research group that investigates implicit learning and unconscious cognition.Maria Kuvaldina is a postdoctoral researcher. She received her doctorate in cognitive psychology from St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include mechanisms of attention and cognitive control.

• Chapter 1: Implicit learning: history and applications. Paul J. Reber, Laura J. Batterink, Kelsey R. Thompson, and Ben Reuveni Chapter 2: The mind is deep. Axel Cleeremans Chapter 3: Consciousness, learning, and control: on the path to a theory. Victor M. Allakhverdov, Margarita G. Filippova, Valeria A. Gershkovich, Valeriia Yu. Karpinskaia, Tanya V. Scott, and Natalia P. Vladykina Chapter 4: Implicit learning from one’s mistakes: the negative choice aftereffect. Maria Kuvaldina, Andrey A.Chetverikov, Alexandr S. Odaynic, Margarita G. Filippova, and Natalya V. AndriyanovaChapter 5: Can we play Space Invaders unconsciously? (A: probably not). Estibaliz San Anton, Axel Cleeremans, and Arnaud Destrebecqz Chapter 6: Can unconscious structural knowledge be strategically controlled? Elisabeth Norman, Ryan B. Scott, Mark C. Price, Emma Jones, and Zoltan DienesChapter 7: Abstraction in sequence learning. Ferenc Kemény and Ágnes LukácsChapter 8: The verbalization effect on implicit learning. Nadezhda V. Moroshkina, Ivan I. Ivanchei, Anatolii D. Karpov and Irina OvchinnikovaChapter 9: Focusing on goal relevance – is it crucial to artificial grammar learning? Agnieszka Popławska-Boruc, Radosław Sterczyński, and Marta Roczniewska Chapter 10: Implicit learning under attentional load. Michał Wierzchoń and Monika Derda