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Memory Definition & Types of Memory
Memory involves encoding, storing, retaining and subsequently recalling information and past experiences.
Episodic Memory: Definition and Examples
Episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a specific event; it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience.
Implicit Memory: Definition and Examples
Implicit memory uses past experiences to remember things without thinking about them, like how to ride a bike or button a shirt.
Declarative Memory: Definitions & Examples
Declarative memory, or explicit memory, consists of facts and events that can be explicitly stored and consciously recalled or "declared."
Semantic Memory: Definition & Examples
Semantic memory is the recollection of nuggets of information we have gathered from the time we are young.
Slicing of the Brain of Patient H.M.
After H.M.'s death in 2008, Jacopo Annese and his colleagues at the Brain Observatory in San Diego dissected his frozen brain into 2,400 thin slices, to learn about his brain lesions.
