Types of LTM

Types of LTM

1. Description

   • Episodic Memories
     • Personal memories for events forming a sequence. They include details of context and emotion
   • Semantic memories
     • Knowledge shared by everyone, abstract and concrete. They are acquired via episodic memories
   • Procedural memories
     • Knowing how to do something. They become automatic through repetition and are disrupted if you think about them

2. Evaluation

   • Episodic memory associated with temporal lobe and frontal lobe
   • Semantic memory associated with temporal lobe
   • Procedural memory associated with cerebellum and basal ganglia and limbic system
   • HM- new procedural memories could be formed but not semantic and episodic ones
   • Evidence from amnesia patients- semantic memories can form independently of episodic memories

3. Further evaluation

   • Brain damage evidence is unreliable because can't be certain that casual part of brain can be identified
   • Perceptual-represenation system may be a kind of implicit memory related to priming