Human Memory

Human Memory
Memory of even the simplest, multicellular creature is not a matter of chance or skill, but is a well organized and extremely complicated system, determined fundamentally by genes and by experience.

Human memory is a highly developed and extremely efficient system. Memory means not only ‘the act of remembering’, but also ‘the person, thing, happening or act remembered’.

Other definitions include the use of the words ‘from memory’ to mean that something is remembered without the aid of notes, and the expression ‘in memory of’, meaning in honor of a certain person after their death.

An important feature of memory, or of the –process of remembering, is recall or recollecting at will.

‘At will’ is an interesting point, since learning is not usually automatic but involves attention, concentration and effort.