title: It is time to fill in the gaps left by simple dissociations.
abstract: Abstract Our field has been dominated by the quest for dissociations. A number of the dissociations have gotten us far and the implicit/explicit one is an excellent example. It holds in the vast majority of cases and has furthered our understanding of memory considerably. There are now several very interesting exceptions to this basic rule that highlight how systems may interact and how independence is an option or a default, but not a necessity. We should not throw away the fundamental dissociation, but nor should we fail to learn from the interesting exceptions.
authors.affiliation: a Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California , Irvine , USA.
authors.forename: Craig E L
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Stark