the study of episodic and semantic memory in quran memories and non-quran memories

abstract aim and background: the present research studied episodic and semantic memory in quran memories and non- quran memories among girl students. methods and materials: research design was based on semi-experimental design. this study included 180 quran memories, beginner and non quran memories among girl students in 3 educational grades: primary, secondary and high school were chosen by cluster random sampling method .the materials of research were cued recall task, verbal task and action tasks. data were analyzed by spss 11.5 software and multivariate analysis (manova) and the tukey test. findings: the finding was obtained superior memory for quran learners increased by age. these findings indicated that skill for learning quran enhances memory for non-quran information and this effect becomes more by increasing of age. conclusions: the result showed that quran memories students had a better memory performance in both episodic and semantic tasks compared non-quran memories students.