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semantic memory

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explicit memory of facts and general knowledge

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episodic memory

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explicit memory of personally experienced events

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hippocampus

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neural center in the limbic system, helps process explicit memorys

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4
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long term potentiation

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increase in a cells firing potential after brief rapid stimulation

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serial position effect

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tendency to recall first and last things on a list

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