In Neil Taatgen's paper on primitive information processing elements (PRIMs) he notes that as a result of saving the used PRIMs in declarative memory (which is fast) as opposed to procedural memory (which is slow), the declarative memory can serve as a scaffold for to build skills by combining the aforementioned PRIMs. This seems to be making two assumptions:Procedural memory is slower than declarative memoryDeclarative memory is important to building skillsAre either of these assumptions true based on empirical evidence?
Role of declarative memory in learning skill
memory;cognitive modeling;theoretical neuroscience