AmiGO 2: Term Details for "memory" (GO:0007613)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0007613
Name: memory
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Definition: The activities involved in the mental information processing system that receives (registers), modifies, stores, and retrieves informational stimuli. The main stages involved in the formation and retrieval of memory are encoding (processing of received information by acquisition), storage (building a permanent record of received information as a result of consolidation) and retrieval (calling back the stored information and use it in a suitable way to execute a given task). Source: GOC:curators, http://www.onelook.com/, ISBN:0582227089
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0007613 at QuickGO
Subset: None
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Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to memory.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to memory.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for memory.
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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0032501 multicellular organismal process
GO:0003008 system process
GO:0007610 behavior
GO:0050877 neurological system process
GO:0044699 single-organism process
GO:0050890 cognition
GO:0044707 single-multicellular organism process
GO:0044708 single-organism behavior
GO:0007611 learning or memory
GO:0007613 memory
GO:0007615 anesthesia-resistant memory
GO:0007616 long-term memory
GO:0072375 medium-term memory
GO:0007614 short-term memory

Ancestors of memory (GO:0007613)

subject	relation	object
memory	is_a (inferred)	biological_process (GO:0008150)
memory	is_a (inferred)	multicellular organismal process (GO:0032501)
memory	is_a (inferred)	system process (GO:0003008)
memory	is_a (inferred)	behavior (GO:0007610)
memory	is_a (inferred)	neurological system process (GO:0050877)
memory	is_a (inferred)	single-organism process (GO:0044699)
memory	is_a (inferred)	cognition (GO:0050890)
memory	is_a (inferred)	single-multicellular organism process (GO:0044707)
memory	is_a (inferred)	single-organism behavior (GO:0044708)
memory	is_a	learning or memory (GO:0007611)

Children of memory (GO:0007613)

subject	relation	object
anesthesia-resistant memory (GO:0007615)	is_a	memory
long-term memory (GO:0007616)	is_a	memory
medium-term memory (GO:0072375)	is_a	memory
short-term memory (GO:0007614)	is_a	memory

Wikipedia: Memory