This contrasts with procedural memory, of the skills required to perform some sort of mechanical task, such as driving.
"Even the memory of simple skills, such as how to chair a meeting, deliberate, or make collective decisions was erased during the dictatorship and replaced by a profound terror of participation, debate and critique," she says.
We discuss this with reference to theories about the emotional consequences of coping with challenge, the association between lack of challenge and the development of abnormal behavior, and the benefits of stress (arousal) in facilitating learning and memory of relevant skills.
For a motor skill to be learned over a prolonged period of time, the motor memory of the skill must be stored, protected from interference by intervening tasks, and reactivated for modification when the skill is practiced.
The "motor memory" of this skill was initially labile and between-task interference occurred in Experiment I if the subjects learned an accuracy-tracking task involving the same movement direction and agonist muscles shortly afterwards.
Modern memories of ancient skills are the subject of K.D. Eaglefeathers's "These Cheyenne Hands," a photographic meditation on the importance of maintaining continuity with ancient traditions.
Finally, there is Harvest Supper, in New Canaan; it had no liquor license and no hot coffee or tea when it was reviewed, but the memory of its kitchen skills lingers.
We started with a couple of recipes, working under my mother's guidance, the living memory of techniques and skills that are learning anew.
When I found out about his December death -- from leukemia that swiftly silenced him within weeks of his pre-Thanksgiving diagnosis -- the memory of his formidable skills, affable boisterousness, and giant heart came rushing back.
Still, we are aware of hardly any (laboratory and field) studies on primates testing for long-term memory of experimentally induced skills under such standardized conditions as in the current study (but see Whiten et al., 2005).
