Procedural memory is largely an unconscious memory process and relates to how we remember and learn to do things which, through frequent repetition, become almost automatic. This can include tasks such as riding a bike, tying a shoelace, using a key board, singing a well-known song or rhyme or reciting the alphabet. When using these skills, no conscious effort to recall how to do the tasks is required, though it may be difficult to explain when or how we learned to carry them out.

For people who have very severe memory impairment and cannot readily make new memories, utilising procedural learning methods (repeatedly doing the same thing in the same way over and over again) may be the most successful way to support rehabilitation.