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Explicit knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Explicit knowledge is knowledge that has been or can be articulated, codified, and stored in certain media. It can be readily transmitted to others. The information contained in encyclopedias (includ...
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Tacit knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal or explicit knowledge) is knowledge that is difficult to be transferred to another person by means of writing down or verbalizing it. For example, stating to som...
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Although many terms are used to describe knowledge, perhaps the most contentious is the distinction that is made between tacit and explicit knowledge. Taking a simple "dictionary definition", tacit knowledge is that which is understood without being openly expressed;
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knowledge that has been expressed in words and numbers and shared in the form of data, scientific formulae, specifications, manuals, etc. It is easy to distribute and it is "slippery". Explicit knowledge, which is also known as "codified" knowledge, is the opposite of tacit knowledge.
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): In this chapter we establish what it is for something to be implicit or explicit. The approach to implicit knowledge is taken from Dienes and Perner (1999), which relates the implicit-explicit distinction to knowledge representations. ... by Zoltan Dienes , ... Add To MetaCar...
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Motor cortical mapping with transcranial magnetic stimulation revealed that the cortical output maps to the muscles involved in the task became progressively larger until explicit knowledge was achieved, after which they returned to their baseline topography.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human brain was used to study whether the amygdala is activated in response to emotional stimuli, even in the absence of explicit knowledge that such stimuli were presented.
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