Memory
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
![From the chapter on Ars Memoriae: The Theatre by Robert Fludd page 55 of [1] Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica](/Image:Theatre_from_Ars_Memoriae_by_Robert_Fludd.jpg)
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"O most ingenious Theuth ... you who are the father of letters ... this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth."--Phaedrus by Plato "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."--Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll |
![Diagram of the human mind, from Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, page 217[2] by Robert Fludd](/Image:Diagram_of_the_human_mind%2C_from_Robert_Fludd_%281574-1637%29%2C_Utriusque_cosmic_maioris_scilicet_et_minoris_metaphysica.jpg)
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In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century put memory within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the principal pillars of a new branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
Namesakes
- Stardust Memories, a film by Woody Allen
- "Memories", a song by Hugh Hopper
Memory failures
See also
- Involuntary memory
- Memoria
- Meme
- Memory phenomena in popular culture
- The Persistence of Memory
- Selective memory
- Memory bias
- Memory erasure
- Politics of memory
- Eidetic memory
- Memory loss
- Cryptomnesia
- Memory failure
- Flashback (psychology)
