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During the past year grant related work has begun on five major projects and a similar number of projects less directly related to the original proposal, but still germane to it. Most of these concern the relation between measures of explicit and implicit memory performance, fulfilling the stated aims of the proposal. To cite some of our major, findings during the first year of work, we have found that (a) priming on perceptual implicit memory tests can be boosted-by imagery; (b) distinctive events that have powerful effects on explicit tests have little or no effect on perceptual priming; (c) a direct comparison of two methods for telling whether implicit memory tests are contaminated by conscious recollection both reveal that the tests are not contaminated, and (d) we have obtained some puzzling results (unlike those described above) which seem to indicate that repetition effects on implicit memory tests are more complicated than we had previously expected. Because we have just completed 12 months of a 36-month grant, some of the projects have not yet been completed. However, even after this first year, we plan to submit four papers on this work within the next few months. Most of the research conducted under the auspices of the grant has been at Armstrong Laboratories at Brooks AFB in San Antonio. This summer we have completed several pilot projects that will launch us on our second year's work at Armstrong Laboratories. Altogether, we tested some thirteen hundred subjects during the past year at Armstrong Laboratories, as well as several hundred more at Rice University, on these various projects. We believe we are making good progress toward our goals of the original proposal.