memory
ID 
GO:0007613
Curation status
Published
Created
1 Dec '21
Modified
21 Feb '25
Parents
Definition
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).
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Fuzzy set
No
BCIO lower level ontology
None