Implicit and Explicit Representation

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 2:478–481 (2003)
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The degree to which information is encoded explicitly in a representation is related to the computational cost of recovering or using the information. Knowledge that is implicit in a system need not be represented at all, even implicitly, if the cost of recurring it is prohibitive.

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