Intermediate-term memory (ITM) is a stage of memory distinct from sensory memory, working memory/short-term memory, and long-term memory. While sensory...

Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for...

Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model in which informative knowledge is held indefinitely. It is defined in contrast...

suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is the ability to remember...

formulas. There is greater understanding if students commit a formula to memory through exercises that use the formula rather than through rote repetition...

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...

Implicit memory, previous experiences help to perform a task with no awareness of those experiences Intermediate-term memory Involuntary memory Long memory, a...

also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally...

likelihood of events with greater "availability" in memory, which can be influenced by how recent the memories are or how unusual or emotionally charged they...

register, where sensory information enters memory, a short-term store, also called working memory or short-term memory, which receives and holds input from...

spatial memories are summarized as a cognitive map. Spatial memory has representations within working, short-term memory and long-term memory. Research...

Memory rehearsal is a term for the role of repetition in the retention of memories. It involves repeating information over and over in order to get the...

system. Sensory information is stored in sensory memory just long enough to be transferred to short-term memory. Humans have five traditional senses: sight...

prior learning episodes. The term is from Ancient Greek 'forgetfulness'; from ἀ- (a-) 'without' and μνήσις (mnesis) 'memory'. Individuals with amnesia can...

generally not found in adults, while true photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist. The term eidetic comes from the Greek word εἶδος (pronounced...

concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time that...

more accurate model of primary memory (often referred to as short-term memory). Working memory splits primary memory into multiple components, rather...

memory, it comprises the category of explicit memory, one of the two major divisions of long-term memory (the other being implicit memory). The term "episodic...

or strategies consciously used to improve memory. They help use information already stored in long-term memory to make memorization an easier task. Mnemonic...

classified three distinct classes of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory. Sensory memory is made up of a brief storage of information within a...

short-term, long-term and sensory memory. The three types of memory have specific, different functions but each are equally important for memory processes...

dysfunction of cognitive processes that control the retrieval from long-term memory. Frontal lobe damage often disrupts this process, preventing the retrieval...

cause long-term damage. Over-secretion of stress hormones most frequently impairs long-term delayed recall memory, but can enhance short-term, immediate...

can be stored within the brain and recalled later from long-term memory. Working memory stores information for immediate use or manipulation, which is...

Verbal memory is a term used in cognitive psychology which refers to memory of words and other abstractions involving language. A variety of tests is used...

treatment. There are three main types of memories: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Sensory memory, in short, is the ability to hold...

new memories after an event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from...

Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical...

required to transfer memories from short-term to long-term memory), he is completely unable to form lasting new memories. His memory for events lasts between...

Explicit memory (or declarative memory) is one of the two main types of long-term human memory, the other of which is implicit memory. Explicit memory is the...