remembering

Definitions of remembering

1. noun

   the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
   “he enjoyed remembering his father”

   synonyms: memory

   types:

   STM, immediate memory, short-term memory

   what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

   working memory

   memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking

   LTM, long-term memory

   your general store of remembered information

   retrieval

   the mental process of accessing information stored in one's memory

   recall, recollection, reminiscence

   the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

   identification, recognition

   the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

   association, connection, connexion

   the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

   retrospection

   memory for experiences that are past

   episodic memory, personal memory

   memory for episodes in your own life

   semantic memory

   your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts

   motor memory, muscle memory

   your memory for motor skills

   mind

   recall or remembrance

   reconstruction, reconstructive memory

   recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall

   reproduction, reproductive memory

   recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall

   regurgitation

   recall after rote memorization

   identity

   the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known

   speaker identification, talker identification

   identification of a person from the sound of their voice

   colligation

   the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis

   type of:

   basic cognitive process

   cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge