Capability of the mind, to store up conscious processes, and
reproduce them later with some degree of fidelity Memory (Lat.,
memoria), is the capability of the mind, to store up conscious
processes, and reproduce them later with some degree of
fidelity. Strictly speaking, however, a revived conscious
process is not remembered, unless it is, at the same time,
recognized as something which occurred before. Memory,
therefore, involves a process of recognition. Voluntary
reproduction of mental processes is frequently spoken of as
recollection, and involuntary, as recall. DIVISIONS OF
MEMORY.—St. Thomas distinguishes two kinds of memory, sensory
and intellectual. He excludes, however, from the former the
function of merely storing up the mental image; this he assigns
to imagination. Sensory memory preserves that which can not be
received by the special senses and yet is individual, and
therefore does not belong to the intellectual memory, which
takes cognizance of nothing but the universal. For instance, the
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