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| Relatively permanent traces of experiences that happened more than 18-30 seconds ago. It's the "hard-drive" of human memory. |
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| Short Term (Working) Memory |
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| Limited, active, transient traces of experiences that happened in the very recent past (no longer than a few seconds ago). It's the "RAM" of human memory. |
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| Declarative/Explicit Memory |
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| Memory that can be consciously declared (facts) |
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| Factual Knowledge independent of time and place. |
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| Theoretical knowledge of a specific moment in time and place |
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| Procedural/Implicit memory |
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| Memory for procedures, skills, and actions |
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| Memory Loss with inability to imagine the future, which can be caused by brain trauma, infection, surgery, or psychological factors. |
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| Memory loss where new events are not stored in long term memory |
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| memory loss with the inability to recall some memory or memories of the past, beyond ordinary forgetfulness |
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| Temporary memory Loss, generally for less than 24 hours |
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| A "curly" structure in the medial temporal lobe, one on each side, which is very important in episodic memory and spatial navigation |
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| A 'coincidence detector' that changes neuron structure and is thought to underlie the formation of long term memories |
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| A structure located in the medial temporal love near the hippocampus that plays a key role in the emotions, such as fear and pleasure |
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| The curved portion of the brain that includes the thalamus and mamillary bodies and is part of the limbic system. |
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| A pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system. |
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| A syndrome characterized by abnormal eye moments, loss of coordination, tremors, confusion, confabulation apathy, and severe anterograde and some retrograde memory memory impairment. It usually caused by vitamin deficiency in alcoholism, or lesions to the thalamus and mamillary bodies. |
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| A short-term/working memory model with three main components. |
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| Part of the Baddeley and Hitch Model, this component stores the visuospatial information. |
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| Part of the Baddeley and Hitch Model, this component stores the auditory information. |
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| Part of the Baddely and Hitch Model, this component performs operations on things stored in the sketchpad or loop. |
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