1. In 1972, Endel Tulving proposed the distinction between episodic and semantic memory . 2. Different diseases and disorders can affect the biological workings of semantic memory . 3. High doses of alcohol severely disrupts the storage process of semantic memories . 4. High doses of alcohol severely disrupt the storage process of semantic memories . 5. My hunch is that it is imagination at work in semantic memory . 6. As such, something that affects episodic memory can also affect semantic memory . 7. General knowledge is thought to be supported by long-term semantic memory ability. 8. Episodic memory and semantic memory are a further division of declarative information. 9. Therefore, they cannot exist independently of any brain structures, unlike semantic memories . 10. One theory proposes that semantic memories are divided into differential semantic categories.