Semantic Memory Vs Structural Memory Essay

The purpose of this research paper was to discuss an overview of the semantic and structural memories and to examine which one of the two have better recall retention. Semantic memories store information through personal events and adding meaning to it, an example would be associating words as unpleasant or pleasant. In another hand, structural memory is obtaining information of what an individual sees, an example would be seeing if a word is upper case or lower case. Evidence suggests semantic memory retains more memory than structural memory. Nonetheless, episodic memory may act as a buffer for semantic memory by help recollecting ‘specific’ personalized events. Also, sematic memory information is easier to recall because an individual is using emotions as cues to bring whatever memory associated with the information. Educational institutions should emphasize teaching students to use semantic approach for learning and retaining information. If an individual was to retain information through structural memory then they may use repetition of …show more content…
The intraparietal sulcus a part of the brain is highly involved in visual memory has been found to play a large role in the manner visual information is perceived in the mind. This is because it has been greatly found to influence the reduction of the capacity of the short-term visual memory to perceive the information that has been encoded to it. As well as the dorsal stream pathway of the brain has profound explanations as it actually influences the memory to be in a position to aid in remembering the location, in terms of recalling it visually and structurally of how the location looked. (Hyde & Jenkins,