Discuss differences between procedural and episodic memory in humans and nonhumans and the associated problems of storage (where and how) and recall.

For a long time it has been known that there are different types of memories, although there has been discrepancy on just how to define and classify these types of memory systems. Procedural and episodic are two types of memory subsystems that have been classified. Procedural memory can be defined as unexplainable memories of skills, actions and so on. Procedural memory is unconscious. You are unaware of the learning and memory formation that goes on. …

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