Types of Long-Term Memory

• Procedural memory


  Relates to motor or movement skills and actions, non-declarative and difficult to describe verbally
• Episodic memory


  Relates to specific events in life, autobiographical, and easier to put into words
• Semantic memory


  Fact-based memories for meaningful information, including general knowledge about the world
• Non-declarative memory


  Memories that are difficult to describe verbally and put into words
• Declarative memory


  Memories that are easy to put into words and consciously inspected
• Autobiographical memory


  Personal memories relating to specific episodes or events in one's life
• Right prefrontal cortex


  Activated when thinking of episodic memories, such as personal autobiographical memories
• Left prefrontal cortex


  Activated when thinking of semantic memories, fact-based memories with no personal reference
• Anterograde amnesia


  Loss of the ability to form new memories
• Retrograde amnesia


  Loss of past memories
• Pet scans


  Used to monitor blood flow in the brain when participants think of specific memories
• Hippocampus


  Part of the brain involved in the formation of new memories
• Clive Waring

  A case study of severe amnesia, providing evidence for different types of long-term memory