There was even an experiment on people with total (declarative) amnesia where they would teach them games, they’d forget having ever seeing the game, then they’d play it well.
From the top of the Wikipedia article on procedural memory:
Procedural memory is memory for how to do things. Procedural memory guides the processes we perform and most frequently resides below the level of conscious awareness.
There was even an experiment on people with total (declarative) amnesia where they would teach them games, they’d forget having ever seeing the game, then they’d play it well.
From the top of the Wikipedia article on procedural memory: