Storage (memory)

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The human memory has three processes: encoding (input), storage (throughput) and retrieval(output). Storage is the process of retaining information whether in the sensory memory, the short-term memory or the more permanent long-term memory.

v • d • e Memory

Basic concepts	Encoding • Storage • Recall Attention • Memory consolidation • Neuroanatomy of memory

Long-term memory	Active recall • Autobiographical memory • Declarative memory • Episodic memory • Explicit memory • Flashbulb memory • Hyperthymesia • Implicit memory • Procedural memory • Rote learning • Selective retention • Semantic memory • Tip of the tongue

Short-term memory	The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two • Working memory

Sensory memory	Echoic memory • Iconic memory • Motor learning • Visual memory

Forgetting	Amnesia • Anterograde amnesia • Childhood amnesia • Forgetting curve • Memory inhibition • Post-traumatic amnesia • Psychogenic amnesia • Repressed memory • Retrograde amnesia • Selective memory loss • Transient global amnesia • Weapon focus

Research	Art of memory • Exceptional memory • Indirect tests of memory • Lost in the mall technique • Memory disorder • Reconstruction of automobile destruction • The Seven Sins of Memory

Related concepts	Absent-mindedness • Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model • Confabulation • Cryptomnesia • Emotion and memory • Eidetic memory • Exosomatic memory • Free recall • Involuntary memory • Levels-of-processing effect • List of memory biases • Memory and aging • Memory and trauma • Metamemory • Mnemonic • Prospective memory • Priming • Recovered memory therapy • Retrospective memory

Culture and society	Cultural memory • False memory syndrome • Politics of memory • Shass Pollak • Transactive memory • World Memory Championships

Notable people	Robert A. Bjork • Stephen J. Ceci • Susan Clancy • Dominic O'Brien • Hermann Ebbinghaus • Sigmund Freud • Jennifer Freyd • Patricia Goldman-Rakic • Jonathan Hancock • HM (patient) • Ivan Izquierdo • Judith Lewis Herman • Eric Kandel • KC (patient) • Elizabeth Loftus • Geoffrey Loftus • Marcia K. Johnson • James McGaugh • Paul R. McHugh • George Armitage Miller • Lynn Nadel • Ben Pridmore • Henry L. Roediger III • Steven Rose • Cosmos Rossellius • Daniel Schacter • Richard Shiffrin • Larry Squire • Susumu Tonegawa • Anne Treisman • Endel Tulving