IMPLICIT RUMINATIONS

Various points of agreement and disagreement with the two target paper s are indicated. Support is voiced for Dienes and Berry's (1997) argum ent that the implicit-explicit dissociation should be determined by in voking subjective criteria and for Neal and Hesketh's (1997) outlining of the problems associated with the very concept of consciousness. Ho wever, criticisms are offered for Neal and Hesketh's proffered solutio n to that problem and their unhappy decision not to include the transf er literature, and for the failure of the authors of both papers to re cognize the importance of neurocognitive evidence.