Episodic and semantic memories
- Created by: jaaaz_v
- Created on: 22-10-15 18:01
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- Episodic
- These memories are important for our sense of identity
- They help us to remember the past, predict the future, and decide what to do.
- We see ourselves as actors when recalling episodic memories
- The entire context surrounding the info is part of the memory
- Stored information about our experiences in life and past events
- Eg. "I remember when my dog broke its leg it was so funny what happened was.."
- Memory of events in a time serial form
- Dependent on time referencing, memories linked to the time they happened
- The input is continuous
- Cues help to trigger a memory
- How the two are interrelated
- Our episodic memory is considered to support and underpin semantic memory
- Semantic memories can operate independently whereas episodic memories are unlikely to exist without semantic memories, as it needs to draw on prior knowledge.
- Both are forms of declarative memories
- Both linked to the medial frontal lobe
- Episodic memories - hippocampus
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