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Explicit and implicit

Explicit - knowing that. Implicit - knowing how.

Episodic memory

Knowing that. Personal experiences. Time, place, context of events - emotions you felt at time.

Semantic memory

Knowing that. Knowledge shared by everyone. Begin as episodic - memory loses association with event, so info more generalised.

Procedural memory

Knowing how. Concerned with skills. Repetition and practice. Implicit memory. Becomes automatic.

Evaluation - Evidence from brain scans

EM associated with hippocampus, temporal lobe and frontal lobe. Memories connected by hippocampus to from an episode. SM - temporal lobe. PM - cerebellum, basal ganglia and limbic system.

Evaluation - Distinguishing procedural and declarative memories

HM - damaged hippocampus - couldn't form new LTMs - retained existing LTMs. Form new procedural not episodic/semantic.

Evaluation - Distinguishing episodic and semantic memories

Patients with Alzheimer's disease - some retained to form new episodic not semantic memories (Hodges and Patterson 2007).