How do we remember? An overview of Long Term Memory

Memory is an active system that receives, stores, organizes, alters, and retrieves information. Our long-term memory is the subset of memory dedicated to long-term storage and retrieval. Memories about childhood, facts and trivia, and basic skills like how to ride a bike are all filed away in long term storage. In this video, we’ll see how our long-term memories are stored and retrieved—although it may be more accurate to say “reconstructed”! 0:00 – Intro 2:23 – Procedural memory 5:19 – Declarative memory 8:28 – Some concepts 13:10 – Schemas 20:40 – Encoding specificity 26:23 – Neuroscience of memory 33:15 – Key concepts Sources: Shiffrin & Atkinson (1969). Storage and retrieval processes in long-term memory. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1969-1... Anderson (1983). Retrieval of information from long-term memory. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.11... Tulving (1985). How many memory systems are there? https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?do... Bartlett (1932). Remembering. https://books.google.com/books?id=WG5... Godden & Baddeley (1975). Context-dependent memory in two natural environments: On land and underwater. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wile... Ucros (1989). Mood state-dependent memory: A meta-analysis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... Vargha-Khadem et al. (1997). Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.11... Lashley (1950). In search of the engram. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1952-0...