Questions tagged [long-term-memory]
For questions on the consolidation of short-term memories into long-term storage, which is comprised of explicit and procedural memory.
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Why do certain individuals struggle to memorize song lyrics?
Some people have a hard time memorizing song lyrics, even after repeated listening.
What individual factors contribute to the difficulty in remembering song lyrics?
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Non-salience memories? [duplicate]
It is said that memories that are significant are remembered much more clearly due to salience. Yet, let us imagine a man named Fred. Fred does not have hyperthymesia as he forgets things like ...
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Which sleep stage(s) account(s) for synaptic consolidation the most?
I learnt that long-term consolidation of memories happens vastly while we are asleep, and it is accompanied by synaptic changes. But exactly which stage(s) of our sleep account for the synaptic ...
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Roles of Brain Regions (neocortex and hippocampus) in Explicit (declarative) LTM
My question is what is the role of the hippocampus, neocortex and amygdala in the encoding, storage and retrieval of declarative (explicit) memory, specifically episodic and semantic
I am sort of ...
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Could memory storage be infinite or is it very unlikely? [duplicate]
We don’t know how memories are stored in the brain, how much “space” a memory takes up and how many neurons can be stored in one synapse. That being said- someone once said (I think it was Wired ...
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A name of the phenomenon when you're confused on what's correct because you've been exposed to the mixture of correct and incorrect variants too much?
I (used to) know that my country formats large numbers as 1.234.567,89 for ease of reading -- we use a decimal comma instead of the decimal point. But I spend a lot ...
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What is the correlation between working memory and long term memory?
(First of all, sorry if this is a silly question; this is not my discipline.)
I am planning on conducting a study, and one of the things I would like to have is a sense of participants' long-term ...
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How do we memorize ordered lists?
We have to memorize a lot of ordered lists in life and in our education period.
In chemistry, we memorize the Metal Reactivity Series and Periodic Table.
Being a table tennis player myself, I can ...
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In what order are details of a learnt subject forgotten over time?
Consider the following fairly common experience: You take a course on a subject in university or on an educational website such as Coursera. Immediately before or after taking the final exam or ...
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Why do some people have better memories than others?
Some people have great memories. Some people have horrible memories. There are even people with hyperthymesia who remember everything. I was told that anybody can have a good memory if they practice ...
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Is there a correlation between long-term memory and academic success in STEM?
There are underlying fundamentals and first principles, especially in STEM that continue to be built upon but can get neglected and forgotten over time without practice. Obviously having a great ...
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What are standardized and scalable methods to assess free recall?
In cognitive psychology and education literature, free recall test is usually compared with recognition test (through multiple-choice questions) and the former is favored as a more reliable measure of ...
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Would you still be addicted to something if you lost your memory of being addicted to it? [duplicate]
If someone was addicted to something, it could be substances/gambling/sex etc... and then they lost their memory. It could be just losing the memory of the addiction or full blown global amnesia ...
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Is there a benefit for humans to lose memory access when under elongated periods of stress?
Long term anxiety causes memory loss. Sources: https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/signs/memory-loss and https://now.uiowa.edu/2014/06/stress-hormone-linked-short-term-memory-loss-we-age
Are there ...
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What do psychologists call the ability to quickly revise and remember things that a person had previously learnt
I am someone very far away from psychology, actually an engineering student, but I came up with this curiosity a few days ago.
To be specific, let's assume someone is learning physics. He previously ...
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