Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action.

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time.

Jan 6, 2020 · Memory is important for how we function in the world, how we interact with other people (and animals), and the emotions triggered in our current place or to events around us.

A person's existing knowledge can impede and obstructs their own memory, leading to a newly formed, cobbled-together recollection that does not accurately reflect reality.

Working memory is a form of memory that allows a person to temporarily hold a limited amount of information at the ready for immediate mental use.

The work of psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and others has demonstrated that memory can be malleable and that it’s susceptible to manipulation.

Memory keeps a record of what has made someone uneasy or upset, what undercut a person’s sense of self-worth, what brought extraordinary shock or pain.

At the center of prospective memory is an intention: to go somewhere at a certain time, to say something to a specific person, or to take any other course of action.

Semantic memory is a form of long-term memory that comprises a person’s knowledge about the world.

Testing memory of learned material, such as a passage of text, can enhance memory for that material—above and beyond re-reading, research indicates.