Overview
The popular taxonomy of long-term memory in psychology and neuroscience involves a primary division into two forms:
- Declarative memory: verbalizable and explicit;
- Nondeclarative memory: implicit, nondiscursive, and automatic.
Declarative, or [[Squire’s taxonomy of long-term memory|expliSquire’s taxonomy of long-term memory
- Episodic memory stores knowledge of the world as an autobiographical representation
Non-declarative, or implicit, memory involves facts and associations which are retrieved through performance:
- Procedural memory is used in performing skills and behaviors
- Priming is when a behavior or mental act is enhanced by prior exposure
- Perceptual learning involves using perceptual cues to learn regularities in the environment
- Conditioning is the learned association between a behavior and an unrelated stimulus
- Non-associative learning is the systematic altering of behavior in response to a repeated stimulus
Episodic memories are a type of explicit memory which involve a complete representation of a personally experienced event, including the event’s what, where, and when.