long-term memory
- noun
- /lɔŋ tɜrm ˈmɛməri/
- Specialized
- Sleep is necessary to transfer records into long term memory from short term memory.
- episodic long-term memory
- information in long-term memory
- long-term memory store
None of that can move into our long term memory.
- None of that can move into our long term memory.
- What exactly does the hippocampus do when it helps you form these new long term memories?
- Try to use that, that forced recall and that'll help to, to, to sort of get it into long term memory.
- If if I can't make long term memories and we meet and shake hands and there's a pin in your hand, like that feels bad, right?
- So I think they have the long term memory of trauma, but I think what they're able to do is move through short term losses, defeats and dust themselves off.
- And then as it gets re put into long term memory as I changed it, I'm now storing that slightly changed variation.
- And the stronger the emotion they feel, the more they remember the choice and they're remembering their future long term memory.
- Like you said, persistent long term memory or reasoning so on.
- I remember shit like my long term memory, people, places, things like it's it escapes me.
Examples
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Yeah, her long-term memory seems quite intact.
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In other words, word recognition is the process of automatically recalling a word from long-term memory.
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This guy has no capacity to form long term memories after a certain point.
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To get things in long term memory, rehearsal is usually not enough.
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Getting information into long-term memory is one thing; getting it out can be quite another.
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So we know that traumatic incidents are committed to long term memory just as much as pleasurable ones.
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In addition, course content includes cognitive learning theories on information processing, long-term memory, and brain research.
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Reducing the short-term memory load helps learners transfer information to long-term memory more quickly and efficiently.
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Accretion is the simplest form of learning where facts are acquired and stored in long-term memory.
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Sleep is necessary to transfer records into long-term memory from short-term memory.
Synonyms
A place in your mind or on a computer where information is kept
The part of your mind that stores information for a long time
Antonyms
How Long
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
long-term + memory
The meaning is directly derived from 'long-term' (lasting for an extended period) combined with 'memory' (the capacity to store information). This adjective+noun composition is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun long-term memory comes from the simple picture of keeping things for a long time. Imagine a box or shelf where you put facts or events and leave them there for years, and so it means the part of the mind that keeps information 'for a long time'.