Short and Long Memory

The main difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is the ability of each individual. According to Michael E. Martinez, these two memories together constitute the cognitive structure or the basic structure of the mind. In short term memory, only a few ideas can be thought at a time. One of the characteristics of short-term memory is that it has a small capacity to store information compared to long-term storage with larger capacity. Depending on the direction and the type of thought, the information goes between short-term memory and long-term memory.

Memory is the ability of the nervous system to receive and store information. It is divided into three parts: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Memory memorizes and feels milliseconds divided into two parts. While the auditory information is processed in echo memory, the iconic memory is responsible for visual information. Short-term memory can save up to 30 minutes of information. Long-term memory can save decades of information including conscious explicit and unconscious implicit memory. Explicit memory is also called declarative memory and can be subdivided into semantic memory and context memory. Program memory and priming effects are part of implicit memory

It is thought that information can be stored in three main storage areas: sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. Information is sequentially stored in the three storage systems, and the storage area varies according to the time frame. The period of holding information is only 1 to several years. Sensory memory stores only short messages. Short-term memory can store information for longer periods of time, but usually it takes only 30-45 seconds. But long-term memory may last a lifetime