memory

id: GO:0007613
name: memory
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The activities involved in the mental information processing system that receives (registers), modifies, stores, and retrieves informational stimuli. The main stages involved in the formation and retrieval of memory are encoding (processing of received information by acquisition), storage (building a permanent record of received information as a result of consolidation) and retrieval (calling back the stored information and use it in a suitable way to execute a given task).

Child Functions

idname
GO:0007614short-term memory
GO:0007615anesthesia-resistant memory
GO:0007616long-term memory
GO:0072375medium-term memory

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0007611learning or memory