types of LTM

• LTM?

  • Duration: Unlimited
  • Capacity: Unlimited
  • Encoding: Mainly semantic (but can be visual and acoustic)
• Episodic memory is a part of the long-term memory responsible for storing information about events
• Semantic memory is a part of the long-term memory responsible for storing information about the world.  This includes knowledge about the meaning of words, as well as general knowledge
• three types of LTM?

  1. episodic = events
  2. semantic = facts and meanings
  3. procedural = muscle memory
• where's procedural memory?

  cerebellum
• where's semantic and episodic memory?

  pre-frontal cortex. semantic = left episodic = right
• what type of recall is procedural memory?

  subconscious / implicit
• what type of recall is semantic and episodic?

  conscious / explicit / declarative