memory

n. 1. Any relatively lasting storage of information in the brain, which is currently hypothesized to involve processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval of the information. This includes numerous kinds of information and different storage processes including that necessary for remembering a specific event, knowledge in general, and knowledge of how to do things like see, move in a coordinated way, and ride a bicycle. 2. A specific recollection of an experience or some factual information. 3. The hypothetical storage system or systems for information of different kinds.