12 Facts About Procedural memory

Procedural memory is a type of implicit memory which aids the performance of particular types of tasks without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.

Procedural memory memories are accessed and used without the need for conscious control or attention.

Procedural memory is created through procedural learning, or repeating a complex activity over and over again until all of the relevant neural systems work together to automatically produce the activity.

Difference between procedural and declarative memory systems were first explored and understood with simple semantics.

The working memory model is thought to be divided into two subcomponents; one is responsible for declarative, while the other represents procedural memory.

The main looping circuit involved in the motor skill part of procedural memory is usually called the cortex-basal ganglia-thalamus-cortex loop.

New thoughts in the scientific community suggest that the cerebellar cortex holds the holy grail of Procedural memory, what is known to researchers as "the engram" or the biological place where Procedural memory lives.

The initial Procedural memory trace is thought to form here between parallel fibers and Purkinje cell and then travel outwards to other cerebellar nuclei for consolidation.

Neural systems used by procedural memory are commonly targeted by Human Immunodeficiency Virus; the striatum being the structure most notably affected.

In more advanced stages of the disease procedural memory is affected by damage to the important brain pathways that help the inner subcortical and prefrontal cortex parts of the brain to communicate.

Studies have compared the common memory deficits caused by both cases to further understand the neural networks of procedural memory.

Results of several studies provide evidence that suggests procedural memory is not only responsible for sequential unification, but for syntactic priming and grammatical processing as well.