Type of memory referring to general world knowledge
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Semantic memory refers to general world knowledge that humans have accumulated throughout their lives.[1] This general knowledge (word meanings, concepts, facts, and ideas) is intertwined in experience and dependent on culture. New concepts are learned by applying knowledge learned from things in the past.[2]
Semantic memory is distinct from episodic memory—the memory of experiences and specific events that occur in one's life that can be recreated at any given point.[3] For instance, semantic memory might contain information about what a cat is, whereas episodic memory might contain a specific memory of stroking a particular cat.
Semantic memory and episodic memory are both types of explicit memory (or declarative memory), or memory of facts or events that can be consciously recalled and "declared".[4] The counterpart to declarative or explicit memory is implicit memory (also known as nondeclarative memory).[5]
^McRae, Ken; Jones, Michael (2013). "Semantic Memory". In Reisberg, Daniel (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 206–216. ISBN 9780195376746.
^Saumier, D.; Chertkow, H. (2002). "Semantic Memory". Current Science. 2 (6): 516–522. doi:10.1007/s11910-002-0039-9. PMID 12359106. S2CID 14184578.
^Tulving, Endel (2002). "Episodic Memory: From Mind to Brain". Annual Review of Psychology. 53: 1–25. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135114. PMID 11752477.
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