long-term memory

Brain processing can change short-term memories into stable memories {long-term memory}| (LTM) {labile memory} {secondary memory} {structural memory}. Short-term memory is process, but long-term memory is structure. Long-term memory involves interactions between two memory types: personal-experience episodic memory and fact semantic memory.

coding

Long-term memory uses mostly semantic code but also uses visual and phonemic codes. All three codes also operate in short-term memory but with different strengths and uses.

time

Long-term memory takes more than 45 seconds to form and can last lifetime.

properties: consciousness

Long-term memory is unconscious.

properties: interference

LTM can have phonological interference.

biology

Long-term memory involves cell changes and protein synthesis. Brain damage can impair long-term declarative and procedural memory but not short-term memory.

biology: drugs

After memory consolidation, drugs do not affect the memory [McCullough et al., 1999].

biology: electrical shock

After memory consolidation, electrical shock does not affect the memory [McCullough et al., 1999].

factors

Greater word concreteness, word frequency, imagery strength, and semantic similarity increase long-term memory. Phonetic similarity decreases long-term memory.

comparison

Perhaps, short-term memory and long-term memory differ only in retrieval method.

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