Types of long term memory

• Types of LTM AO3

  + brain scan support for regions of LTM

  + support for distinction between implicit and explicit from patient HM - sever epilepsy, removed hippocampus, LTM remained intact however unable to transfer certain types of info to LTM

  could learn implicit tasks not explicit

  + patient PM - amnesia as a result of a virus, implicit memory affected but procedural was intact
• Episodic memory


  explicit

  personal experiences

  located in hippocampus
• Semantic memory


  Explicit

  knowledge

  temporal lobe
• Procedural memory


  Implicit

  performed tasks or skills

  cerebellum and motor cortex
• LTM support - brain scans


  Brain scans - different parts of the brain are active when processing episodic, santic and procedural memory
• LTM support - Patient HM


  Suffered severe epilepsy and underwent surgery which involved the removal of his hippocampus. His stm remained in tact but he was unable to tramsfet info to his ltm.

  was able to learn procedural tasks but not semantic or episodic
• LTM support - Patient PM


  SEverett amnesia as a result of a virus

  episodic and semantic was effected but procedural remained in tact
• LTM support - real world applications 


  Belleville - compared performance of older people suffering with mild cognitive impairment who tevieved memory training with that of a control group who didn’t.

  participants in experimental group performed better on a test of episodic memory. being able to identify different types of LTM allows psychologisys to improve people’s lives through appropriate treatment