In the case of pure implicit memory, studies reveal that the retrieval process makes the retrieved bit of information enter consciousness, but it is not tagged or labeled as coming from the past. Pure implicit memory when retrieved simply shapes our here-and-now experience—so we get on a bike and ride it without feeling, “Oh, I am remembering how to ride a bike.” With trauma, one proposal suggests, we only encode some aspects of a traumatic experience in its pure implicit form within storage. As a result, the retrieval of pure implicit memory for past trauma can enter awareness in the present
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