types of LTM

• Semantic LTM is info about the world, meanings of words or general knowledge
• Episodic LTM stores info about events we have experienced, it includes several elements, such as feelings and who is there, and they are "time stamped"
• Procedural LTM is memories of how to do things, motor skills, they don't involve conscious thought
• brain scans:

  support the idea of different types of LTM

  shows that different parts of the brain are active when using different types of memory

  EPISODIC: frontal lobe + temporal lobe

  SEMANTIC: temporal lobe

  PROCEDURAL: cerebellum
• Bellevill et al 2006:

  showed the strength of identifying different types of LTM

  episodic memory could be improved in older people who had suffered memory loss

  those who went through training did better on episodic tests

  this is helpful because it shows we can make treatments for different types of LTM