long-term memory

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Long-term memory in humans refers to our memory of events, people, ideas and skills that stay with us for very long periods, perhaps for our whole lives. It is often divided into: episodic memory of events and gtheor relations; {[declarative memory}} of facts and concepts; and procedural memory of how to do things. In addition, decalartuve memory for different kinds of things, for example perosnal relationships vs public figures, are stored in different ways.

Used on Chap. 14: page 332; Chap. 22: pages 535, 536, 537, 543

Also known as long-term memories