Structure of Procedural Memory

Procedural memory can be explained as the implicit remembrance, it is kept in the long term memory. There is no need to think consciously to retrieve the long term memory of skills and operations, while declarative memory has to be put into terms. Learning how drive a car or play the musical instrument are models of procedural memory. There are three major stages in procedural memory can which are skills and habits, conditioned reflexes, and emotional associations. Procedural memory is stable and cannot be expressed by an individual. Differences between declarative and procedural memory can be explained with their places in separate parts of brain activated in information storage, motivations processing, and retrieval.

Christopher Nolan’s psychological thriller “Memento” has received an award as the best movie of 2001 and is categorized as one of the best 250 shows of all the time. In this movie after the brain injury Leonard Shelby loses the ability to predetermine short term memories to keep them in the long term memory.

Leonard Shelby is an insurance deception researcher, who is investigating the homicide of his wife. The results of attack to which his wife fell a victim, were that Leonard suffered a split brain injury along with the ability to generate new memories. With the intention of keeping track of the actions that occurred during the day, main character keeps set of notes, takes photographs, and makes tattoos on himself. All at once, Leonard however has recollections about the events that took place before the damage and remembers the reason of the injury and the analysis itself; this information happens to be critical in his exploration.

Memory loss is a usual topic in movies all the way through the history of movies. This movie is shot in the overturn sequence of events with the concluding scene of murder of Leonard’s wife being the first one in the movie.