THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REMEMBERING AND KNOWING - A COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

Cognitive neuroscience has provided strong support for the idea that t here are multiple memory systems. Recent evidence suggests that rememb ering and knowing may be two types of recognition with different neura l substrates. The remember/know distinction is not equivalent to the e xplicit/implicit distinction because both remembering and knowing are impaired after damage to medial temporal lobe structures. A number of converging lines of evidence suggest that the relationship between rem embering and knowing is one of redundancy, with ''knowing'' processes also active during remembering. Remembering appears to depend addition ally on frontal lobe functioning. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All r ights reserved.