Meaning of Memory

Meaning of Memory
Memory is a difficult word to define although most people have what appears to an instinctive definition from an early age. Small children have, no doubt, been taught what the word means by their parents, grandparents and teachers.

Without needing a precise definition, research on memory now occupies the time of thousands of scientists and students working all over the world.

They are part of an enormous enterprise known generally as brain research but more accurately as the neuroscience. The neuroscience are a newly discipline, comparable with other sciences that emerged, like computer or environmental sciences from other discipline.

The neuroscience was born from a number of disciplines ranging from psychology, animal and human behavior to chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics.

Those working in memory are now agreed that the word refers to ‘the systems, representations and processes in, living organisms that are involved in the retention of information’, but this is another clumsy definition.

All major dictionaries include wide lists of alternative under the definition of memory. Among these are ‘the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience’ and perhaps, ‘the ability to keep things in mind and recall them at will’.
Meaning of Memory