LTM

Examples

• All

• Key elements, rather than every single detail, are stored in the LTM.

  Academic text (1996)

• Knowledge of catching a ground ball is an example of data to be stored in LTM and used later in a game situation as needed.

  Academic text (1995)

• So long term memory or LTM has a huge storage capacity.

• If there is not some anchor or association already located in the LTM, the new information will drop out and be lost.

  Academic text (1997)

• Information stored in LTM is retrieved when situations demand.

  Academic text (1995)

• When an unknown item is experienced during training and encoded in LTM, some of its semantic features will be more prominent than others.

  Academic text (2014)

• To make such a judgment, subjects have to access and retrieve categorical information about the words, which it is presumed is stored in LTM.

  Academic text (1990)

• The more quickly information necessary to solve the problem can be searched for, accessed, and retrieved from LTM, the more likely it is that the earlier encoded information will not have been lost due to decay.

  Academic text (1990)

• Consolidation and long-term storage of information in STM is thought to be facilitated by rehearsal and chunking of items as they are transferred into long-term memory (LTM) stores.

  Academic text (1997)

• Long-term memory, or LTM, allows us to retain information for years.

Synonyms

M

memory

vsLTM

628 2.8

Ability to store and remember information, experiences, and skills

refers specifically to the long lasting information store rather than general ability

L

long-term memory

vsLTM

• Specialized

7 3.7

The part of the brain that keeps information for a long time

is the shortened written form used instead of the full term

How Long-lasting

persistent

• Specialized

3 4.9

LTM

• Specialized

6.9

short-term memory

• Specialized

22 3.9

sense experience

5.6

Surface Forms

Etymology