In their target article on explaining functional deficits in amnesia, Mayes and Downes (this issue) discuss the relevance of implicit memory. Our commentary considers a number of implicit memory phenomena that may be especially pertinent to understanding the functional deficits of amnesia. Recent evidence suggests that amnesic patients do not benefit normally from an exact perceptual match of s...

Dienes and Perner propose a theory of implicit and explicit knowledge that is not entirely complete. It does not address many of the empirical issues, nor does it explain the difference between implicit and explicit learning. It does, however, provide a possible unified explanation as opposed to the more binary theories like the systems and the processing theories of implicit and explicit memor...

In the course of the development of our understanding of topological quantum field theory (TQFT) [1,2], it has emerged that the structures of generators and relations for the construction of low dimensional TQFTs by various combinatorial methods are equivalent to the structures of various fundamental objects in abstract algebra. Thus, 2D-TQFTs can be constructed from commutative Frobenius algeb...

This longitudinal study was designed to investigate the associations between changes in implicit theories of ability in biology and college students’ dropout from STEM majors. We modeled the one-year growth patterns of entity and incremental beliefs about ability in biology with 4 time points of self-reported data and two covariates—biology domain knowledge and inference making and gateway cour...

A self-consistent strategy is proposed to complete in a renormalization scheme independent way the dynamical generation of Quark-Level Linear Sigma Model like Lagrangean theories beyond one loop like the theories of strong and electroweak interactions. The present discussion refers for simplicity to scalar and pseudoscalar degrees of freedom only while disregarding yet — without loss of general...

We study exact renormalisation group flows for background field dependent regularisations. It is shown that proper-time flows are approximations to exact background field flows for a specific class of regulators. We clarify the rôle of the implicit scale dependence introduced by the background field. Its impact on the flow is evaluated numerically for scalar theories at criticality for differen...

Lyons-Ruth , Alec C. Morgan , Nadia Bruschweilerstern and Edward Z. Tronick It is by now generally accepted that something more than interpretation is necessary to bring about therapeutic change. Using an approach based on recent studies of mother-infant interaction and non-linear dynamic systems and their relation to theories of mind, the authors propose that the something more resides in inte...

It is by now generally accepted that something more than interpretation is necessary to bring about therapeutic change. Using an approach based on recent studies of mother-infant interaction and non-linear dynamic systems and their relation to theories of mind, the authors propose that the something more resides in interactional intersubjective process that give rise to what they will call 'imp...

Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) is the study of the satisfiability of logical formulas (typically in first-order logic) with respect to (combinations of) background theories. The roots of SMT go back to work on automatic theorem proving and decision procedures for such logics performed in the 1970s and 80s. The defining characteristic of SMT solvers is their mode of operation: a satisfiabi...