Long Term Memory - Tulving (1972)

The video explores the concept of long-term memory, initially introduced in the 1890s and formalized in the 1960s by Atkinson and Schiffrin. It discusses Endel Tulving's triptych of long-term memories: procedural, semantic, and episodic. Procedural memory involves skills and actions, semantic memory stores factual information, and episodic memory records personal experiences. Cohen and Squire later simplified this into declarative and procedural categories. Research on amnesic patients supports these distinctions, showing that procedural memory can be retained even when declarative memory is impaired. The video concludes by encouraging further exploration of memory structures.

What evidence supports the distinction between declarative and procedural memories?

Explain the impact of amnesia on different types of memory.