Semantic memory is a form of long-term memory that comprises a person’s knowledge about the world. Along with episodic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, because a person is ...

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Their study, published ...

Dr Ali Boyle is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. She works in the philosophy of science. Most of her research is about comparative ...

Statistical approaches to emergent knowledge have tended to focus on the process by which experience of individual episodes accumulates into generalizable experience across episodes. However, there is ...

Semantic memory deals with facts and remembering dates or word definitions. However, whether episodic or semantic, diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia cause memories to become more difficult to ...