WordNet
n. your general store of remembered information [syn: LTM]
Wikipedia
Long-term memory (LTM) is the final stage of the dual memory model proposed in the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, in which information can be stored for long periods of time. While short-term and working memory persist for only about 18 to 30 seconds, information can remain in long-term memory indefinitely. Long-term memory is commonly broken down into explicit memory ( declarative), which includes episodic memory, semantic memory, and autobiographical memory, and implicit memory ( procedural memory).
Usage examples of "long-term memory".
Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory.
You were the one who told me that a given period of time must pass before my short-term memory becomes long-term memory.
The retrieval of this long-term memory is called anamnesis, which literally means the loss of forgetfulness.
It's only by luck that I haven't made some unforgivable mistake so far, and this is not because I can't get at the long-term memory.
I shouldn't wonder that my next prescription might have included some mind-dulling chemicals, slowing down my mental processes until I couldn't keep two thoughts in my head at once or have much long-term memory.
The whole assembly would escape detection by anything short of a very thorough CAT scan, and it would briefly scramble the recording circuits of his short-term and long-term memory systems if certain thoughts entered his mind.
That's usually long enough for her natural mind to commit a thought to long-term memory.
Automatically, she applied for an increase in the standard student's allotment of long-term memory storage from 320K to 2048K, and opened an account in the Looking-GLASS program.
Your short-term memory is ridiculously huge, and your long-term memory defies description, and you've got no backups.
I could imagine don Balthazar spinning in his molten grave as I gave up long-term memory for the transient satisfaction of implant omniscience.
He can barely remember what has happened, the horrors of parallel instances of mass murder blocked from his long-term memory by a high-pass trauma filter.