- Verbatim memory explains the intimate details of a scenario
- Decays faster and feeds into gist memory

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In Fuzzy Trace Theory, it's presumed that both gist and verbatim memories are created in parallel and accessed separately. Gist and verbatim memories refer to familiarity within an episodic memory (Wright & Lotus, 1998).

Fuzzy Trace Theory

Wright, D. B., & Loftus, E. F. (1998). How misinformation alters memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 71(2), 155-164.


How Misinformation Alters Memory

- Gist memory captures the overarching meaning of a memory
- Last longer than verbatim memory
- More likely to be a gist memory for the whole memory

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