see memory, semantic (Your Incredible Memory)

The part of declarative memory that stores general information such as names and facts.

the memory we have for general knowledge and in formation that is similar to that of a dictionary or an encyclopaedia. It is memory we can recall and rely on.

Semantic memory is one of the three types of long-term memory (the others are episodic and procedural) in which we store general world knowledge like facts, ideas, words, problem solving, etc.

Generalized memory—for instance, knowing the meaning of a word without knowing where or when you learned that word.

The memory of meanings, understandings and other concept-based knowledge. Remembering that a robin is a bird with a red breast is one example of semantic knowledge.

refers to explicit knowledge of the world that you have without any recollection of where or when you acquired it; for instance, you know flamingoes are pink, but probably not the situation in which y [..]

Types of remembering are sometimes distinguished by their time courses. Irocic memory and echoic memory refer, respectively, to the brief persistence of the effects of visual and auditory stimuli. Sho [..]

See REMEMBERING.

A subcategory of declarative memory, semantic memory stores general information such as names and facts. A system of the brain where logical concepts relating to the outside world are stored. '' [..]