06 Long-term Memory

Question 1

subcategories of long-term memory

Answer 1

declarative/explicit and non-declarative/implicit

Question 2

subcategories of declarative memory

Answer 2

• episodic memory: events, specific personal experiences from a particular time and space
• semantic memory: facts, world knowledge, object knowledge, conceptual priming
  medial temporal lobe, middle diencephalon, Neocortex, especially PFC

Question 3

subcategories of non-declarative memory

Answer 3

• procedural memory: skills (motor and cognitive), basal ganglia and cerebellum
• perceptual representation system: perceptual priming, perceptual and association cortex
• classical conditioning: skeletal muscles
• nonassociative learning: habituation, sensitization, reflex pathways

Question 4

What is (anterograde/retrograde) amnesia?

Answer 4

• global amnesia: inability to remember and learn new information
• anterograde amnesia: inability to learn new information, to make new memories
• retrograde amnesia: inability to retrieve old memories