Dienes & Perner argue that volitional control in artificial
grammar learning is best understood in terms of the distinction between
implicit and explicit knowledge representations. We maintain that
direct, explicit access to knowledge organised in a hierarchy of
implicitness/explicitness is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain
volitional control. People can invoke volitional control when their
knowledge is implicit, as in the case of artificial grammar learning,
and they can invoke volitional control when any part of their knowledge
representation is implicit, as can be seen by examining “feeling
of knowing” phenomena.