Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...
Science Daily

This brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink how memory works

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.
Neuroscience News

Memory Rewritten: Study Finds No Clear Line Between Episodic and Semantic Retrieval

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

New Study Throws a Wrench in Our Understanding of Memory

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

Research Redefines Our Understanding of How Memory Works

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

New Brain Study Challenges Decades of Memory Research

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.
Medical Xpress

Study identifies how the brain handles different types of memory retrieval

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Long-term memory can be ...
Study Finds

Your Sense Of Self Is Deeply Tied To Your Memory – Here’s How

Everyone sees themselves through their own eyes, but our memories shape how we judge the person staring back in the mirror.
Psychology Today

Semantic Memory

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 ...