Particularities and efficiency of the transfer of explicit and implicit knowledge

This research aims at discovery of particularities of transfer of explicit and implicit types of knowledge. The authors used the experimental paradigm “artificial grammar learning”. During the training phase of the procedure, half of the participants performed a task to memorize the sequences which were created by a specially designed grammar rule. The other half of the participants explicitly learned the grammar rule, which is used to construct the aforementioned sequences. During the testing phase, all the participants were asked to identify the grammatical state of the analyzed structures, which were created from another set of letters. This phase presupposed special testing conditions in terms of the time limit (2,5 sec.), which prevented conscious use of the acquired knowledge while choosing the answer. After each solution, the participants justified their answer: (1) random choice, (2) intuition, (3) analysis of the sequences fragments, (4)the knowledge of the rule. The results have shown that all the participants, regardless of the way of the knowledge acquisition, demonstrated the correctness of the responses at the level ‘above random selection’. The participants, who gained implicit knowledge, chose ‘intuition’ more often. The participants, who learned the rule explicitly opted for the “analysis of fragments of sequences”. Conclusion: 1) both types of knowledge can be unconsciously used under new conditions; 2) particularities of these types of knowledge is reflected in subjective evaluation.