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===Memory=== [[Memory]] is a very broad function which includes several distinct abilities, all of which can be selectively impaired and require individual testing. There is disagreement as to the number of memory systems, depending on the psychological perspective taken. From a clinical perspective, a view of five distinct types of memory, is in most cases sufficient.<ref name="Lezak2012"/><!-- <ref>{{cite book |title=Neuropsychological Assessment |last1=Lezak |first1=Muriel D. |last2=Howieson |first2=Diane B. |last3=Bigler |first3=Erin D. |last4=Tranel |first4=Daniel |date=2012 |edition=Fifth |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-539552-5 |url=http://global.oup.com/academic/product/neuropsychological-assessment-9780195395525 |access-date=17 June 2014}} * {{cite journal |author=Peter J Anderson |date=April 2013 |title=Leader of the Pack |type=Review |journal=Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society |volume=19 |issue=4 |doi=10.1017/S1355617713000337|s2cid=144213730 }}</ref> --> '''Semantic memory''' and '''episodic memory''' (collectively called [[declarative memory]] or explicit memory); '''procedural memory''' and '''priming''' or perceptual learning (collectively called [[non-declarative memory]] or implicit memory) all four of which are long term memory systems; and '''working memory''' or short term memory.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mayes, A. R.|title=Memory disorders in psychiatric practice|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-57671-0|pages=506|editor=Berrios, G. E. |editor2=Hodges, J. R|chapter=The neuropsychology of memory}}</ref> [[Semantic memory]] is memory for facts, [[episodic memory]] is autobiographical memory, [[procedural memory]] is memory for the performance of skills, [[priming (psychology)|priming]] is memory facilitated by prior exposure to a stimulus and [[working memory]] is a form of short term memory for information manipulation.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mayes, A.R.|title=Human organic memory disorders|year=1988|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-521-34418-0|pages=300}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Baddeley, A.|title=Working Memory|journal=Science|year=1992|volume=255|issue=5044|pages=556β559|jstor=2876819|doi=10.1126/science.1736359|pmid=1736359|bibcode=1992Sci...255..556B}}</ref>} {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * [[Benton Visual Retention Test]] * [[California Verbal Learning Test]] * Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT) * [[Gollin figure test]] * Memory Assessment Scales (MAS) * Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test * Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test * Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) * Mental Attributes Profiling System * [[Wechsler Memory Scale|Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)]] {{div col end}}
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