long term memory
Enduring mental storage
Long term memory is the brain's system for storing information over extended periods—from hours to a lifetime.
It contrasts with short term or working memory, which holds information only briefly.
Long term memory divides into types: explicit memories you can consciously recall (facts, events) and implicit memories you can't articulate (skills, habits).
The accident affected her long term memory, though she could still remember what happened minutes ago.
- recallMemory retrieval act
- total recallComplete, perfect remembrance
- retentionContinued holding or possession
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- brain cellsNeural tissue components
nostalgia · childhood · early childhood · storage · encoding · retrieval · senior moments · flashback · déjà vu · autobiography · episodic · semantic · procedural · consolidation · sleep · dreams · neurons · synapses
- dementiaAlzheimer's, forgetfulness, cognitive decline, disorientation, confusion
- cognitive testsStanford-Binet, IQ test, cognitive test, intelligence test, attention test
- learning disabilitiesdyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, learning disability
long term memoryforgetting
Failing to retain memories
amnesia · memory loss · oblivion · forgetfulness · anterograde amnesia
long, term, memory, longer, longest, length, lengthen, lengthy, lengthwise