BCS 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cerebral Circulation, Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Course: BCS 111
• Professor: Yang

Document Summary

Episodic memory: holds memories of specific events in which you yourself participated. Semantic memory: holds info that has entered your general knowledge base. You can recall parts of this base, but the information recalled is generic (it doesn"t have much to do with your personal experience) Any of your memories that you can trace to a single time are considered to be in episodic memory . even if you don"t recall the exact date, you know the information was first presented at a particular time and place. Episodic and semantic memories are memory systems that operate on different principles and hold on to different kinds of information. Organization of episodic memory is temporal (one event will be recorded as having occurred before, after, or at the same time as another. Organization of semantic memory is arranged more on the basis of meanings and meaning relationships among different pieces of information.