The amazing phenomenon of muscle memory

Our most repeated physical actions can, with continual practice, be performed automatically without any real-time awareness.

We think of those particular skills being stored in our ‘muscle memory’ but in reality, they are stored very much in our brains.

• Declarative (or Semantic) memory is our factual memory which stores the details like the information and figures, but not the visual, emotional or sensory details.
• Episodic Memory stores our life events, for us to be able to relive our past, complete with all the atmospheric details.
• Procedural Memory is the memory of skills, in which the brain records the sensory input from the various body parts and muscles during a particular activity, and is able to replicate the muscle application and movement.