ABSTRACT
Usually we think of memory as an image of a past event surveyed at leisure in the “mind's eye,” or as the fragments of the preceding day that are reworked in dream hallucination; but memory is also active when we recognize objects and retrieve the words to describe them, in the bonds and habits that pattern our everyday experience, the unconscious processes that structure behavior, and in movements like dancing or typing, even walking—indeed, in all actions and automatic mechanisms. Memory is idea or representation, but it is also the process of remembering and the way this process shapes actions, percepts, feelings and thoughts.
