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Q: | Which of the following best describes what semantic and episodic memories have in common?
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They refer to factual knowledge retained
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Their activity is highly concentrated in the hippocampus
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They are a type of working memory
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They are most easily described in words
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Semantic and episodic memories are both subcategories of declarative memory, which is the memory of facts and events that can be consciously recalled or declared. While semantic memory (focused on facts, concepts, and knowledge about the external world) mainly activates the frontal and temporal cortexes, episodic memory (our memory of experiences) activity is initially concentrated in the hippocampus, and then stored in the neocortex. |
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