Implicit Memory Quotes

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.