Memory, long-term
The ability to permanently store, manage, and retrieve information for later use. Items of information stored as long-term memory may be available for a lifetime.
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Short-term memory. Also called working memory. Recent memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Recent memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data. One test of recent […]
- Memory, short-term
A system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Short-term memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data. One test of short-term memory is memory span, the number of items, usually words […]
- Memory, working
Short-term (recent) memory. Working memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Working memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data. One test of working memory is memory […]
- Menangle virus
A virus that causes a disease first found in a piggery near Sydney, Australia in 1997. The virus was highly contagious, moving between pigs in different pens and sheds. It caused numerous deformed and stillborn piglets with abnormalities of the central nervous system. The virus also caused an influenza-like illness in two of the workers […]
- Menarche
The time in a girl’s life when menstruation first begins. During the menarche period, menstruation may be irregular and unpredictable. Also known as female puberty.