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The human memory is a complex cognitive system, which has been much researched in recent times. In general terms, memory can be viewed in various guises, either as a mental structure which functions to retrieve information about images, conversations, events, ideas etc. at a time when the original stimulus is no-longer present or as a storage system which hold this information so that it may later be retrieved. More simply put, memory is the information processing capacity that allows for information to be encoded, retained and retrieved. Human memory, it has been found, is not a single discrete function, but rather consists of a chain of complex associated processes, each serving specific purposes with its own characteristics. The first model, to systematically put these processes together was the modal (or multi-store) model proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968). In describing the basic architecture of the memory, they initially introduced two different...

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