memory

The cognitive function of capture, registration, assimilation, retention, and retrieval of mental, emotional, and physiological information.

Direction in time

• retrograde
• anterograde
• prospective

Duration

• seconds: recall, immediate
• minutes: short-term
• days-years: long-term

Location

• primary
• secondary

Sensory modality

• sound: echoic
• sight: iconic

Type of information

• explicit: declarative
  • autobiographical
  • episodic
  • semantic
  • topographical
• implicit: nondeclarative
  • procedural