Types of long term memory

• Types of long term memory


  Episodic = memory for events in our lives, time stamped

  Semantic = memory for knowledge of the world

  Procedural = memory for automatic and often skilled behaviours, unconscious recall
• Types of LTM evaluation

  +clinical evidence, Clive Wearing and HM had damaged episodic memories but procedural memory working

  +real world application, old-age memory loss improved by intervention to target episodic memory

  -conflicting neuro-imaging evidence, research links semantic to left prefrontal cortex and episodic to right, others reverse this