Is it possible to know what to do without being able to act upon this knowledge? In a recent study, Atallah et al. show clear evidence that learning a new skill and expressing it are two separate steps that can be dissociated.
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Lerchner, A., La Camera, G. & Richmond, B. Knowing without doing. Nat Neurosci 10, 15–17 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0107-15
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