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Nature Neuroscience 10, 15 - 17 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0107-15

Knowing without doing

Alexander Lerchner1, Giancarlo La Camera1 & Barry Richmond1

  1. The authors are at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Building 49, Room 1B80, US National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. e-mail: lerchnera@mail.nih.gov e-mail: bjr@ln.nimh.nih.gov


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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