• Attention
• Hormones
• Lobes
• Long-Term Memory
• Memory
• Nervous System
• Neuroplasticity
• Neurotransmitters
• Procedural Memory
• Senses
• Synaptic Pruning
• Working Memory

There are different kinds of long-term memory. Here are some examples:

• semantic memory—facts about the world, such as the fact that Washington, D.C., is the capital of the U.S., or that a horse has four legs.
• episodic memory—the conscious recollection of specific events from your past, such as a favorite holiday or an important event.
• procedural memory—information about how to do something that involves your basic sensory and motor skills, such as walking, riding a bike, playing a musical instrument, or driving a car.

Long-term memories aren’t stored in a single place in the brain. Instead, various areas of the cerebral cortex store different aspects of memories. For example, the memories of sights tend to be stored in the visual cortex, while smells are stored in the olfactory cortex. An area of the temporal lobe, the hippocampus, helps coordinate all the different pieces of information to form a complete memory.