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• the long term memory has three stores

  episodic

  semantic

  procedural
• episodic memories are personal recollections of events/experiences

  • time stamped
  • explicit (declarative)
• semantic memories are facts about the world and general knowledge

  • not time stamped
  • declarative (explicit)
• procedural memory is how to do things (ride a bike etc)

  • non declarative (implicit)
• explicit/declarative memory requires conscious thought
• implicit/non declarative memory requires no conscious thought
• brain area used in episodic memory

  • hippocampus and temporal lobe
• brain area used in semantic memories

  • temporal lobe
• brain area used in procedural memories

  • cerebellum and basal ganglia