Psychology Today

Revamping How We Think About Memory

The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.
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New study redefines our understanding of how memory works

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...
Psychology Today

Semantic Memory

Semantic memory is a form of long-term memory that comprises a person’s knowledge about the world. Along with episodic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, because a person is ...
Medical Xpress

Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory—here's how

Declarative memory can be further broken down into semantic memory and episodic memory. Semantic memory refers to general knowledge about the world. For example, knowing that cats are mammals.
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Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...