Long term memory

• 3 different types of long term memory

  procedural, episodic, semantic
• Procedural memory


  Behaviour and skills
• Episodic memory


  Past events/experiences
• Semantic memory


  general knowledge and facts
• Clive Wearing case study

  - musician who suffered brain damage and only had STM

  - could remember how to read music, play piano etc

  - suggested he still had procedural memory
• HM case study


  Had amnesia and was asked to draw a line between 2 stars whilst watching his hand in a mirror - he got better after repeated attempts but didn't remember doing it previously - he was able to learn new skills
• Episodic and semantic memory are both _____________

  Declarative
• Tulving et al


  - Asked ppts to perform memory tasks while completing PET scans

  - found that episodic and semantic memories were recalled from the pre-frontal cortex