... two memories from each other in normal human beings. Tulving thought that semantic and episodic memory are likely to be highly interactive. Despite all difficulties the independence of the two is still widely accepted. - The Episodic memory is a memory system that makes it possible for a person to remember concrete personal episodes or events dated in subjective past. For example it would allow us to remember what we did before the movies last weekend. - The Semantic memory stores the "general information about the world". The information that the semantic system handles need not have any personal relevance, nor need it refer to any other particular time in the past. The semantic memory system allows the individual to construct mental models of both concrete and abstract parts and aspects of the world. It makes cognitive representations of stimuli, objects, situations, facts, and events possible. The semantic memory has also ...

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