IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT MEMORY FOR HAPTICALLY EXPERIENCED 2-DIMENSIONALPATTERNS

Recent research with visual objects has delineated important represent ational differences between memory measures that tap identification (i mplicit tests) and measures that require episodic recognition (explici t tests). We investigated whether these differences reflect a fundamen tal architecture for the representation of object information in memor y. In the present experiment, we contrasted identification and episodi c recognition for haptically presented two-dimensional patterns. Hapti c identification was not affected by elaborative processing at study w hereas haptic episodic recognition was enhanced by elaborative process ing. This finding suggests important similarities in the organization of object information in the visual and haptic modalities.