procedural memory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproceduralandmemory
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procedural
adjective
uk/prəˈsiː.dʒər.əl/us/prəˈsiː.dʒɚ.əl/
relating to a set of actions that is the official, legal, or accepted way of ...
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memory
noun
uk/ˈmem.ər.i/us/ˈmem.ər.i/
the ability to remember information, experiences, ...
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Rather, it may be more appropriate to describe the calibration of visual-motor transformations as involvingproceduralmemory.
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Theproceduralmemorysystem subserves aspects of the mental grammar, which underlies the rule-governed sequential and hierarchical computation of complex linguistic structures.
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The dorsal learning system utilizes aproceduralmemorysystem and the ventral learning system a declarative memory system.
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The data suggest that human hippocampus is involved in declarative rather thanproceduralmemoryand in episodic rather than skill learning.
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The data suggest that the hippocampus is involved in declarative rather thanproceduralmemoryand in episodic rather than skill learning.
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Later exposure to language may impair the ability of theproceduralmemorysystem to learn or compute aspects of grammar.
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Working models are thought to be initially encoded inproceduralmemoryas expectations that help the infant feel secure.
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This was interpreted as showing thatproceduralmemorytraining was more beneficial than training of residual cognitive functions.
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Their disorder may involve a dysfunction ofproceduralmemoryin (at least) the grammar and motor domains, while leaving declarative (and lexical) memory relatively spared.
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Thus, there is a key distinction betweenproceduralmemory(knowing how) and declarative (knowing that, itself divisible between semantic and episodic or autobiographical memory).
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Although many equate implicit memory withproceduralmemory, in this case it might be said that the implicit memory is declarative.
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Our approach eschews strict adherence to the more usual psychological distinctions between, for example, autobiographical, working, semantic, episodic andproceduralmemory.
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A dysfunction of the frontal/basal-gangliaproceduralmemorysystem may explain this grammatical deficit as well as their motor deficits.
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With few exceptions, most of the commonly used antidepressants seem to have little or no adverse actions on motor functions - indirectly indicating a lack of an effect onproceduralmemory.
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It does have long-term implicitproceduralmemoryand presumably it is that memory system that takes over from the ventral system's memory when it has attained sufficient proficiency.
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This may be caused by a dysfunction of a frontal/basal-ganglia "proceduralmemory" system previously implicated in the implicit learning and use of motor and cognitive skills.
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Implicit orproceduralmemoryhas been described as being both functionally and structurally more archaic.
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The other system is usually referred to as the ' 'proceduralmemory' ', ' 'skill' ', or ' 'habit' ' system.
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The declarative/procedural model posits that the declarative andproceduralmemorysystems underlie the learning, representation, and use of aspects of lexical and grammatical knowledge, respectively.
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