ABSTRACT
Learning is essentially a process of storing in the brain, and memory is the retrieval from this storage in the ‘data banks’ of the brain. There are two quite distinct types of learning and memory, though in many situations they may be employed in conjunction. First, there is motor learning and memory, which is the learning of all skilled movements-even standing and walking, as we have seen in Chapter 3. Second, there is what we may call cognitive learning and memory, which involves all perceptions, ideas, linguistic expressions, and in fact the whole of culture in all its manifestations-the World 3 as listed in outline in Figure 4.2. Before attempting the descriptions and conjectures on the cerebral processes involved in all types of human memory, it is important to consider the evolutionary origins.
