The Learning Brain
Season 1
Ep 5. Semantic Memory
- TV-PG
- May 25, 2018
- 32 min
How do you know the distance to the Earth from the Sun? With no first-hand experience, we use "semantic memory" - impersonal, fact-based memory - for world knowledge. Semantic memory also includes our grouping or categorizing of information - but how do our brains do that? Professor Polk makes short, easy work of the subject.