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 ...

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Their study, published ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now ...

Statistical approaches to emergent knowledge have tended to focus on the process by which experience of individual episodes accumulates into generalizable experience across episodes. However, there is ...

While a little forgetfulness is common as we get older, more significant memory loss can be a sign of a serious memory problem. “Impaired memory during aging was initially called age-associated ...

Lead author Annick Tanguay, who conducted the study both at uOttawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences’ School of Psychology and the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK). Researchers from the ...