long term memory types

• what are the types of memory ?

  episodic , semantic , procedural
• what memory types are explicit ?

  episodic and semantic
• what types of memory are implict ?

  procedural
• what memories are episodic ?

  personal experiences
• what brain region is episodic ?

  hippocampus
• what memories are semantic ?

  knowledge and facts
• what brain region is semantic ?

  temporal lobe
• what memories are procedural ?

  tasks or skills
• what brain region is procedural ?

  cerebellum and motor cortex
• what research supports the different types of LTM ?

  Clive Wearing - episodic impaired but procedural and semantic intact

  PET scans - different areas of brain active when accesing different types of long term memory

  Patient HM - episodic impaired but procedural and semantic intact