LONG-TERM MEMORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-term memory mean? 

• LONG-TERM MEMORY (noun)
  The noun LONG-TERM MEMORY has 1 sense:

1. your general store of remembered information

  Familiarity information: LONG-TERM MEMORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-TERM MEMORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your general store of remembered information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

long-term memory; LTM

Hypernyms ("long-term memory" is a kind of...):

memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long-term memory"):

episodic memory; personal memory (memory for episodes in your own life)

semantic memory (your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts)

motor memory; muscle memory (your memory for motor skills)

 Context examples 

He lost his ability to make new memories, but his long-term memories remained.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When long-term memories are recalled, they become fragile and changeable.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

It lets your brain hold onto information as you’re using it, then discard it if it’s no longer needed or store it in your long-term memory.

(Recalling temporary memories, NIH)

A 25-item screening test for dementia that provides quantitative assessment on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment.

(Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, NCI Thesaurus)

Its use was discontinued due to extreme side effects that included delirium, confusion, visual disturbances, hallucinations and violence; some evidence of long-term memory disorders and schizophrenia-like syndrome has been observed.

(Phencyclidine, NCI Thesaurus)

New research reveals that short-term memories and long-term memories are formed simultaneously in different parts of the brain, a discovery that challenges our current models of memory formation.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Furthermore, when the connection between the hippocampus and cortex was blocked, long-term memory was unable to mature.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The past theory that short-term memories in the hippocampus transfer to long-term memories in the cortex was developed in the 1950s, when a famous amnesiac patient named Henry Molaison experienced a damaged hippocampus following surgery for epilepsy.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)