LTM/STM

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Types of LTM
- Episodic
  - Personal memories of events,
  - Declarative: Can explain/talk about them, knowing that
  - Contextual details
  - Emotional tone
- Semantic
  - Facts and knowledge
  - Concrete (ice is made of water) or abstract (mathematical knowledge)
  - Declarative
- Procedural
  - How to do things
  - Automatic as a result of repeated practice
  - Non- Declarative: cannot explain/talk about it, knowing how
- Clive Wearing
  - Viral infection that attacked his brain caused amnesia
  - Damaged hippocampus and area around it
  - Can still play piano
  - Does not remember musical education
  - Knows he has children, cannot remember their names
  - Believes every time he sees his wife is for the first time in years
  - Procedural memory not affected
  - Semantic and episodic memory damaged
  - Evidence for different types of LTM
Semantic
- Facts and knowledge
- Concrete (ice is made of water) or abstract (mathematical knowledge)
- Declarative

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