What Is Procedural Memory?

Procedural memory is a kind of inertial memory and also a non-declarative system (Nondeclarative System), also known as skill memory, which means how to do things, including memory of perceptual skills, cognitive skills, and motor skills. Procedural memory is knowledge about how to do something or about the connection between stimulus and response.

Memory is the remembering, keeping, reappearing or recognizing of the experience by the human brain.

Case studies of damage to specific areas of the brain (such as hippocampal gyrus injury) point out that procedural and episodic memory are used in different parts of the brain and can operate independently of each other. For a patient who declares normal memory and impaired procedural memory, he may be repeatedly trained on a task and remember previous training, but there will be no improvement in the speed or degree of task completion; A person with normal memory and announcing memory impairment cannot recall the content of the experiments he has done before, but the actual performance will be better every time.

Damage to the cerebellum and basal ganglia may affect the learning of procedural memory.

Declarative memory refers to the memory of descriptions of things, such as: self-introduction, which is explicit memory;

Procedural memory refers to the memory of actions, such as riding a bicycle, which is implicit memory.