PSY260H1 Chapter : Episodic and Semantic Memory
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Includes spatial and temporal information about the context, where and when things occurred, etc. Semantic memory: memories for facts and general knowledge about the world. It is not tagged in time or space. These share two key features; they can be communicated flexibly, in different formats than the one in which they where originally encoded. This flexibility may seem trivial but in fact it"s hard to communicate many memories in other ways than how they where originally learned (motor memories/procedural memories). Both are also generally accessible to conscious recall. You know whether you remember the event or fact or if you don"t. If you have forgotten it temporarily you will usually know that you"ll remember it eventually. A lot of memory is not accessible in this way, like skill learning. Declarative memory is the larger umbrella of memory that includes both semantic and episodic memory (it is also known as explicit memory).
