types of long term memory

• what are the 3 types of long term memory?

  semantic, procedural and episodic memory
• what is semantic memory?


  contains knowledge of the world

  NOT time stamped

  less personal and more about facts
• what is procedural memory?


  memory for actions or skills

  able to recall these memories without concious awareness

  might find hard to explain these skills to someone else
• what is episodic memory?


  ability to recall events from our lives

  ARE time stamped

  have to make conscious effort to recall memories

  include people, places, objects
• location of semantic memory?


  left prefrontal cortex
• location of episodic memory?


  right prefrontal cortex
• location of procedural memory?


  cerebellum and basal ganglia