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.

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Study identifies how the brain handles different types of memory retrieval

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Long-term memory can be ...
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 ...
The Conversation

Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory – here’s how

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot ...