Although a person with amnesia has no recollection of having seen incomplete figures before, she or he can identify the object much more quickly on subsequent presentations, showing ________.
A) the existence of implicit memory in the absence of explicit memory
B) the existence of explicit memory in the absence of implicit memory
C) the intact function of the ventral pathway in amnesia
D) the fact that memory for figures is spared in amnesia

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This phenomenon demonstrates implicit memory, where a person can improve in tasks without conscious awareness of the previous experiences, indicating that some form of memory is working without the person's explicit recall of the information.

Although a Person with Amnesia Has No Recollection of Having