Human memory

Human memory the term memory implies the capacity to encode, store, and Retrieve information. When human see, sense & hear, that can store in part of human body that is Brain.

MEMORY is the process by which what is learned can be retained in storage with the possibility of drawing on it later. Most of what humans know about the world is not built into the brain at the time of birth but is acquired through experience. It is learned, stored in the brain as memory, and is available later to be retrieved.


The brain is highly specialized and differentiated, organized so that different regions of neocortex simultaneously carry out computations on separate features of the external world (e.g., the analysis of form, color, and movement).Memory of a specific event, or even memory of something so apparently simple as a single object, is thought to be stored in a distributed fashion, essentially in component parts. These components are stored in the same neural systems in neocortex that ordinarily participate in the processing and analysis of what is to be remembered. In one sense, memory is the persistence of perception. It is stored as outcomes of perceptual operations and in the same cortical regions that are ordinarily involved in the processing of the items and events that are to be remembered.

One fundamental distinction in the neuropsychology of memory separates immediate memory from long-term memory. Indeed, this is the distinction that is revealed by the facts of human amnesia. In addition, a number of distinctions can be made within long-term memory. Memory is not a unitary mental faculty but depends on the operation of several separate systems that operate in parallel to record the effects of experience. The major distinction is between the capacity for conscious recollection about facts and events (so-called declarative or explicit memory) and a collection of non conscious memory abilities (so-called no declarative or implicit Emory), whereby memory is expressed through performance without any necessary conscious memory content or even the experience that memory is being used.