We know that when we process some information or solve some problem, we need to pull information from long term memory to working memory. There are few factors known to me that can cause a failure during retrival:Working memory shortagepoor temporal contextThe memory was never transferred to long term memory to begin withLow working memory is something that can be easily diagnosed with Dual n-back tests.A study on anterograde amnesic patients have shown that they do not appear to have poor temporal order (5), which indicates that maybe temporal context is not to blame when people forget things. However, it is possible that this does not apply on all cases.This leaves the third possibility: that short term memories do not always get transferred to long term memories. Is this a possibility? If yes, then why does it happen?Sources: Types of memoryRole of working memoryTemporal contextHow is information transferred into long-term memory?Anterograde amnesia and temporal orderDual n-back test
Low crystalized intelligence- failure to transfer skill from Hippocampus to cortex?
long term memory;episodic memory;temporal context;amnesia