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Oh, oh Foley. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 60, Memory Encoding and Recall.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we're going to look at memory, including a discussion of the different types of memory.

So we'll look at working memory and long-term memory and also semantic procedural and the various different types.

I'll talk about the length of working memory in terms of how long it lasts, how much information it can hold, and various interesting effects on how,

that influence how much we remember of things in short-term memory.

I'll also talk about things that influence how much we can

recall from memories, including level of processing, incidental versus intentional learning,

pneumonics, retrieval paths, and state-dependent learning. I'll also talk a bit about amnesia

and the difference between familiarity and actual memory, because it turns out they're not quite the same thing.

There are no prerequisites for this podcast, although the material in this podcast complements well with that in episode 20,

the reliability of memory. So check that out before or after listening to this if you find this of interest.

So, first of all, let's start by talking about working memory,

because it's sort of a foundational idea.

Working memory is the system that holds pieces of information for a short period of time.

The exact length of time sort of varies, depending on how you test it.

It's something on the order of like 30 seconds, maybe a minute or two, something like that.

But it doesn't last very long.

This is also sometimes called short-term memory, although there is, some people draw a distinction between working memory and short-term memory, and some people don't.

I'm effectively just going to talk about working memory in this episode. I won't really distinguish between that and short-term memory.

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