Memory and its mechanism

ABSTRACT

Memory; a higher intellectual function is ability to store experiences and information and to recall these voluntarily and involuntarily. Explicit or declarative memory is associated with consciousness. It is of two types; episodic [memory of events] and semantic [memory of words, rules and language. It involves hippocampus, amygdala and diencephalon. Implicit or skill or habits memory is the memory of skilled behavior and it does not require conscious understanding; for example riding a bicycle and playing basketball. Parts of the brain involved in this memory are parts of sensorimotor cortex, basal nuclei and cerebellum