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Just thought I'd throw in my support of the vote to merge muscle memory into this article. [[User:Digfarenough|dig<i>far</i>enough]] ([[User talk:Digfarenough|talk]]) 22:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
:There are several types of procedural memory, and muscle memory is only one of them. Learning stimulus/response associations is another form of procedural memory that is not motor-based. Therefore I do not think it is scientifically sound to merge it with muscle memory, since that is only one type of procedural memory.
::(I assume you didn't mean to start a new section with the title "=" so I moved your response up and indented it: I apologize if that isn't what was intended). I think the better solution would be to have muscle memory redirect here and simply include "muscle memory" as a subtype of procedural memory on this page. My personal feeling is that stimulus-response learning is [[striatum|striatal]] and that so-called "muscle memory" is the same, so that ultimately it is safe to consider them the same thing (but perhaps I'm just restating that they are both procedural). I am somewhat biased by the fact that I think the [[muscle memory]] page is in very poor shape and that merging here would provide a good chance to cut out a lot of it and just keep the good parts. Out of curiosity, can you think of a good example of stimulus-response learning that you could consider clearly distinct from "muscle memory"? I can think of a few examples, but they aren't very good so maybe I'm missing something obvious. [[User:Digfarenough|dig<i>far</i>enough]] ([[User talk:Digfarenough|talk]]) 01:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
No no no! Terrible idea for a merge! Muscle memory has nothing to do with procedural memory, or memory at all for that matter, it is a completely discreet faculty.
:Could you give an example of something that is muscle memory and not procedural memory? [[User:Digfarenough|dig<i>far</i>enough]] ([[User talk:Digfarenough|talk]]) 14:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
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