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Memory for facts and memory for events *
Author(s) -
Warrington Elizabeth K.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1986.tb00665.x
Subject(s) - psychology , semantic memory , cognitive psychology , implicit memory , categorical variable , childhood memory , memory errors , cognitive science , reconstructive memory , explicit memory , episodic memory , contrast (vision) , cognition , neuroscience , computer science , recall , artificial intelligence , machine learning
There are many skills and activities which in some sense can be regarded as having a memory component. I have considered only two kinds of memory ‐ memory for facts and memory for events. Drawing on the evidence of individual case studies and on selected small group studies, it is argued that qualitatively distinct and dissociable cortical systems subserve these two kinds of memory. In particular, I have argued that semantic knowledge systems are categorical in their organization and by contrast that memory for events is dependent on the operation of cognitively mediated schemata, and that the interaction of both systems is necessary for effective remembering.