But the spirit and the commitment of the tribunal, no matter the ambivalences and reservations it too may contain, suggests that memory is a strange and often wondrous thing: there is, blessedly, such a thing as the duty of memory – and it often imposes a continuity, particularly when the time calls for it, upon the act of remembering.
Many people who wear the poppy, lay wreaths and stand in silence genuinely engage in the act of remembering, sometimes for family members and for fallen friends.
"That's very beneficial for a neural information processing system". The act of remembering is a complex cognitive activity because memory is associative, Wagner said, meaning that when someone, for example, thinks about what they ate for lunch the day before, it's likely to tap into memories of other lunches.
While memory is not "intelligence" in itself, learning is a memory based process and the act of remembering is critical for the science of learning.
"The act of remembering makes you stronger.
Prospective memory is the act of remembering to perform an action in the future, often after the presentation of a cue.
The act of remembering is in itself an odd thing, of course.
The act of remembering, she said, has three stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
