Memory types include sensory (brief perception storage), short-term (temporary holding of info), and long-term, which splits into explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious).

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 ...

Implicit memory is unconscious and automatic (skills, tasks), while explicit memory involves conscious recall of facts and events (names, dates).

Memory can be classified in many ways, according to how long you hold the information and how you use it. Here's all about episodic memories.

For the first time, it has been shown that deficits of semantic memory, an ability we use to recognize objects and use them correctly, are involved in specific eating disorders shared by patients ...

In a novel experiment, neuroscientists pinpointed the exact region of the brain that is responsible for encoding semantic memory, which is disrupted in certain forms of dementia.

Semantic memory tests and a questionnaire on eating disorders designed specifically to study these disorders in dementia were administered to these patients and to group of healthy subjects.

CHARITY BROWN, JÜRGEN GEHRKE, TOBY J. LLOYD-JONES, A visual and semantic locus to beneficial effects of verbalization on face memory, The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 123, No. 1 (Spring 2010), ...

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 ...