Comment by pempem

7 months ago

Such a good question - I hope someone answers with more than an anecdote (which is all I can provide) - I've found the skills that don't leave you like riding a bike, swimming, cooking are all physical skills. Tangible.

The skills that leave: arguments, analysis, language, creativity often seem abstract and primarily if not exclusively sourced in our minds

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hn_throwaway_99  7 months ago

Google "procedural memory". Procedural memory is more resistant to forgetting than other types of memory.

  • eru  7 months ago

    I guess speaking a language employs some mixture of procedural and other types of memory?