Neuroscience
New Study Throws a Wrench in Our Understanding of Memory
Some types of memories may not be stored as differently as we thought
By Jake Currie January 28, 2026
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Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into two subcategories: episodic memory and semantic memory. Episodic memory, as its name indicates, is the recollection of experiences—places, time, and the emotions associated with them. Semantic memory, on the other hand, is the recollection of general facts and information.
To put it simply, you rely on semantic memory to win a game of bar trivia, but you rely on episodic memory while recounting the story of your victory to friends. Or at least that’s what psychologists believed. New research from the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge published this week in Nature Human Behavior is blurring the lines between the two.
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I find the whole lack of understanding of “humans” quite amazing and quite unfathomable. We know so little about how we perceive “reality”. And, the more is learned about quantum mechanics, the less of what we know is correct. Newton’s Laws of Motion are “wrong” when in “quantum mechanics”.
Birds see colors that we can’t; dogs hear what we can’t; and we can’t even understand “intelligence” in other species.
Sigh!
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