by thenewgreen

from Wikipedia:

While short-term memory encodes information acoustically, long-term memory encodes it semantically: Baddeley (1966)[6] discovered that after 20 minutes, test subjects had the most difficulty recalling a collection of words that had similar meanings (e.g. big, large, great, huge) long-term. Another part of long-term memory is episodic memory "which attempts to capture information such as “what”, “when” and “where”.[7][full citation needed] With episodic memory individuals are able to recall specific events such as birthday parties and weddings.

What is your first memory? What has stayed with you all these many years? Has it shaped you?

Memories of Childhood. by Geoffrey Cervantes