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TYPES OF LONG TERM MEMORY - Coggle Diagram
TYPES OF LONG TERM MEMORY
EPISODIC MEMORIES
memories of life events that have emotional connections to
time stamps
require retrieval
SYMANTIC MEMORIES
general knowldege
history dates, names of famous people
need to be actively retrieved
no time stamp
PROCEDURAL MEMORIES
skills, routes and procedures
no time stamps
dont require active retrieval (muscle memory)
CLIVE WEARING
suffered from a very rare case of amnesia, couldn't access long term memories or make new ones.
couldnt remember his episodic memory (wife, kids) but had access to his procedural memory (how to get home, skill based)
K.C. who suffered brain damage in a motor accident, lost all his episodic memory, semantic memory was still intact
AO3 - real life application
Dementia and Alzheimers, episodic memories are always the first ones to go, semantic memories go much later and then finally procedural but its rare if they do go
supports idea that there are different spaces for long term memory because they're deteriorating at different rates