Semantic memory refers to a portion of long-term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience. Semantic memory includes things that are common knowledge, such ...

When discussing memory systems, it seems the most common point made is regarding the difference between short- and long-term memory. It seems pretty well-known that short-term memory operates over a ...

Episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience. Episodic memory is sometimes confused with ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Statistical approaches to emergent knowledge have tended to focus on the process by which experience of individual episodes accumulates into generalizable experience across episodes. However, there is ...

Figure 1: The declarative versus nondeclarative memory account. In this Perspective, I review data showing that different types of memory are not solely distinguishable on the basis of consciousness ...