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Explicit memory

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Explicit memory
Conscious recall of facts and events that is classified into episodic memory (involves time and place) and semantic memory (does not involve time and place). For example, an amnesiac may remember he has a wife (semantic memory), but cannot recall his last conversation with her (episodic memory).
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Perhaps there is more of an interaction of implicit and explicit memory processes than we once thought, and patients with mild AD can successfully use implicit memory, or memory without conscious awareness, to support recognition," they said.
Cavanaugh and her colleagues conducted a randomized, controlled trial of 171 women with at least one explicit memory of child sexual abuse (CSA) involving genital and/or anal contact during the ages of 4-15 years with a perpetrator who was at least 5 years older.
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