Extensive psychological and neurobiological evidence demonstrates that implicit and function-specific explicit memory systems rely on distinct cognitive and neural architectures.
The retrieved literature consistently supports the long-standing neuroscientific consensus that implicit and explicit memory are functionally and neuroanatomically distinct. Seminal reviews (e.g., papers 0 and 8) establish the dissociation between declarative and non-declarative systems, while recent findings (e.g., papers 5 and 11) continue to find functional dissociations and distinct underlying mechanisms between explicit and implicit cognitive processes. There is no evidence refuting the core claim.