types of memory

• henry molaison's memory was damaged after an operation that removed a small part of his brain to cure his lifelong epilepsy
• capacity definition


  how much information can be stored in memory
• duration definition


  how long information can be stored
• coding definition


  the way information is changed so it can be stored, what format it is stored in
• sensory coding


  codes that store sensory information
• two main sensory codes

  acoustic and visual codes (5 in total touch, smell, feel)
• semantic coding


  storing information by its meaning