memory

mental faculties and processes involved in storing and retrieving information
Event cognitive_process Q492
memory
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Memory is a cognitive process[1].

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: learning or memory[3]
  • Commons category: Memory[4]
  • Has part(s): long-term memory[5], short-term memory[6], creation[7], recall[8], implicit memory[9], explicit memory[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Memory[11]
  • Described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], The Encyclopedia Americana[16], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[18]
  • Topic has template: Template:Memory[19], Šablona:Paměť[20]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://psychology.stackexchange.com/tags/memory[21]
  • Has effect: memory[22]
  • Has characteristic: memory type[23]
  • Different from: computer memory[24], memory[25], Mémoire[26]
  • Studied by: memory and attention[27]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[28]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0007613[29]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[30]

Body

Outcome and Impact

Things named for memory include Memory of the World[31], a collaboration[32], founded in 1992[33] and souvenir[34].

Why It Matters

memory has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] memory is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for memory include Memory of the World[31], a collaboration[32], founded in 1992[33] and souvenir[34].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['3BS6Is', '1q2HJM', '15nbZE', '3gIISo']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → memory
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: memory, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948386|memory (#289948386)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001075-pamet
    Australian thesaurus of education descriptors id → 4683
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001075-pamet, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → memory and attention
    Has characteristic → memory type
    Described by source → The Catholic Encyclopedia, Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +4
    Subclass of → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 2607, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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