Today we discussed types of long-term memory, partly derived by Tulving to offset the criticism that the multi-store-model is too simplistic. Procedural memories are how to do things ie ride a bicycle, semantic memories are memories for facts and knowledge and episodic memories are memories for personal events.
Evidence for these three types of memories comes largely from the study of brain-injured patients who have deficits in one of these areas of memory and not another e.g HM, whose procedural memory was OK but whose semantic memory was severely damaged.
Today's ppt is here. The handout with research evidence is here.
