Information in memory is being represented not stored

In the book Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology, the author is being very careful in using the word represented, rather than stored, when talking about the Long-term memory. This is due to the similar concern of The name short-term memory may emphasise too much on storage. Information in our memory is not stored as-is, and it may be different when you recall it in the future.

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References

Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology (p. 170).

Our goal in this section is to describe some experiments that compare where STM and LTM are represented in the brain (note that we say "represented" and not "stored," since, as already explained, memory (both short-term and long-term) refers to more than just a storage space).

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• Three ways information is being represented in memory
  • In cognitive psychology, the ways information is being represented in our memory is called coding (Information in memory is being represented not stored). There are three types of coding: