The mystery of memory

Summary

Memory is a very important, fascinating and interesting thing. There are few types of memory: long-term memory, short-term memory, working memory, procedural memory, declarative memory, photographic memory.

The process of remembering consists of recovering things from long-term memory and placing them into working memory. Other very important types of memory are procedural memory, that is remembering how to do things and declarative memory, which is remembering details of some thing. Moreover, there are other distinctions: recognition and recall.

Furthermore, people have photographic memory, which is snapshot-like fragments associated with smells, colors, tastes. Thanks to this type of memory people remember things from childhood.

What is more, people have great number of nerve cells in the brain, which can make even more different connections with each other. This process explains how memories are made.

All in all, memory is extremely important and there are still a lot of things to be discovered.