What is Ability To Memorise?

What we usually think of as 'memory' (ability to encode, store, retain and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain) in day-to-day usage is actually long-term memory. Episodic memory and semantic memory are two major types of memories that make up part of your long-term memory where episodic memory focus on your individual recollection of specific events, feelings, and experiences while semantic memory is on the fact and general knowledge and not drawn from personal experience. If you can remember something that happened more than just a few moments ago whether it occurred just hours ago or decades earlier, then it is a long-term memory, but the long-term memory established by working through short-term memory (short-term memory can be used to remember a phone number that has just been recited) and sensory memory (ability to retain sensory impressions for stimuli received through the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) processes. The cognitive psychologists divide memory into the first 15-30 seconds (without any memory rehearsal), and they call this short-term memory, and all the rest of memory that lasts beyond 30 seconds is long-term memory. The different types of memory each have their own particular mode of operation, but they all cooperate in the process of memorisation, and are necessary in forming a lasting memory. Here, the genetic prediction of one's ability to memorise only takes into consideration the genetic properties associated to storing and recalling information and does not take into consideration those associated with other cognitive functions such as procedural memory (unconscious memory: driving car/talking).

How It Affects You

If you can remember something that happened more than just a few moments ago, whether it occurred just hours ago or decades earlier, it would be long-term memory. However, long-term memory is established by working through short-term memory and sensory memory processes.

Short-term memory can be used to remember a phone number that has just been recited, while sensory memory refers to the ability to retain sensory impressions for stimuli received through the five senses (i.e. sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch).

Here, the genetic prediction of one's ability to memorise only takes into consideration the genetic properties associated with the storing and recalling of information and does not take into consideration those associated with other cognitive functions such as procedural memory (unconscious memory: driving car/talking).