The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to memory:

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as forgetfulness or a disorder such as amnesia.

Memory can be described as all of the following:

• A component of cognition – "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".^[1] It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes.

1. Encoding
2. Storage
3. Recall
   • Free recall
   • Cued recall
   • Serial recall

• Adaptive memory
• Affective memory
• Autobiographical memory
  • Flashbulb memory
• Body memory
• Childhood memory
• Collective memory
  • Cultural memory
    • Folk memory
  • National memory
• Echoic memory
• Eidetic memory
• Episodic memory
• Exceptional memory
• Explicit memory
• Exosomatic memory
• False memory
• Genetic memory (biology)
• Genetic memory (psychology)
• Implicit memory
• Tonal memory
• Touch memory
• Verbal memory
• Visual memory
  • Visual short term memory
• Working memory

• Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model
• Autobiographical memory
• Baddeley's model of working memory

• Hippocampus
• Prefrontal cortex

Memory disorder – result of damage to neuroanatomical structures that hinders the storage, retention and recollection of memories.

• False memory syndrome
• Acquired brain injury (ABI)
• Agnosia
• Alzheimer's disease
• Amnesia
• Brain injury
• Dementia
• Hyperthymestic syndrome
• Huntington's disease
• Parkinson's disease
• Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome

• Alzheimer's disease

• Attention versus memory in prefrontal cortex
• Audience memory curve
• Autism and working memory
• Context-dependent memory
• Difference due to Memory
• Effect of caffeine on memory
• Effects of alcohol on memory
• Effects of stress on memory
• Emotion and memory
• Eyewitness memory

• Wechsler Memory Scale

• Art of memory
• Working memory training

• World Memory Championships

• False Memory Syndrome Foundation

• Genetic memory in fiction

• 1-2-AX working memory task
• AGP Inline Memory Module
• Aperture (computer memory)
• Associative memory
  • Autoassociative memory
    • Bidirectional associative memory
  • Fuzzy associative memory
  • Hopfield network
• Bubble memory
• Buddy memory allocation
• Cache-only memory architecture
• Cellular Memory Modules
• Cellular memory
• Channel memory
• Common Flash Memory Interface
• Comparison of memory cards
• Computing with Memory
• Content-addressable memory
• Conventional memory
• Core rope memory
• DOS memory management
• Declarative memory
• Delay line memory
• Deterministic memory
• Direct memory access
• Distributed memory
• Distributed shared memory
• Drum memory
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Dynamic random-access memory
• Dynamic video memory technology
• ECC memory
• Environmental memory
• EOS memory
• Expanded memory
• Extended memory
• External Memory Interface
• Fiscal memory devices
• Flash memory
• Flash memory controller
• Flat memory model
• Genetic memory (computer science)
• Unbuffered memory
• Unified Memory Access
• Uniform Memory Access
• Universal memory
• Upper memory area
• Velocity (memory cache)
• Video memory
• Virtual memory
• Volatile memory

History of memory

• Memory and aging
• Memory and social interactions
• Memory and trauma

• Global Memory Net
• Goldfish Memory
• Grand Master of Memory
• Greatest Hits/Every Mile a Memory 2003–2008
• Gunnm: Martian Memory
• HP Continuous memory
• HP Memory spot chip
• Hall of Memory
• Hall of Memory (Birmingham)
• Haptic memory
• Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
• Hauser's Memory
• Hendersonville Memory Gardens
• Hierarchical temporal memory
• High memory
• High memory area
• Historical Memory Law
• History & Memory
• Hoard memory allocator
• Holographic associative memory
• How Memory Works
• Human memory process
• Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
• HyperMemory
• I'll Keep Your Memory Vague
• I Don't Want to Be a Memory
• Iconic memory
• If Your Memory Serves You Well
• Immortal Memory
• In-memory database
• In Memory
• Indirect tests of memory
• Institutional Memory
• Institutional memory
• Intel Memory Model
• Intel Turbo Memory
• Interleaved memory
• International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz
• International Symposium on Memory Management
• Involuntary memory
• JEDEC memory standards
• JEIDA memory card
• Java Memory Model
• Journal of Memory and Language
• Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory
• Kill Memory Crash
• Kurau Phantom Memory
• LCD memory effect
• Landscape: Memory
• Limited-memory BFGS
• List of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory mobile weapons
• List of memory biases
• List of people claimed to possess an eidetic memory
• List of people in fiction with claimed eidetic memory
• Live at Memory Lane
• Living Memory (paintings)
• Living memory
• Long-term memory
• Long short term memory
• Lost Memory
• Loving Memory
• Mac OS memory management
• Magnetic-core memory
• Magnetic memory
• Magnetic shape memory
• Magnetoresistive random access memory
• Making Love from Memory
• Man Without Memory
• Man with a Memory
• Manual memory management
• Matter and Memory
• MegaMemory
• Mellon optical memory
• Memory
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
• Memory-disk synchronization
• Memory-level parallelism
• Memory-mapped I/O
• Memory-mapped file
• Memory-prediction framework
• Memory (2006 film)
• Memory (2008 film)
• Memory (Bujold novel)
• Memory (Cats song)
• Memory (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Memory (Poul Anderson)
• Memory (Stephen King)
• Memory (disambiguation)
• Memory (short story)
• Memory Almost Full
• Memory Alpha
• Memory B cell
• Memory Bank (UK game show)
• Memory Banks (comic strip)
• Memory Boy
• Memory Bridge
• Memory Chapel
• Memory Crash
• Memory Eternal (chant)
• Memory Foundations
• Memory Game
• Memory Garden
• Memory Hill Cemetery
• Memory Hold-the-Door
• Memory Hole 1
• Memory Hole EP
• Memory Island Provincial Park
• Memory Lane^{[disambiguation needed]}
• Memory Lane, Volume 1
• Memory Lane, Volume 2
• Memory Lane (Denton, Maryland)
• Memory Lane (audio drama)
• Memory Man
• Memory Management Controller
• Memory Medal for Advancing Latvia's Membership to NATO
• Memory Motel
• Memory Muscle
• Memory Park
• Memory Pool System
• Memory Prime
• Memory ProteXion
• Memory RNA
• Memory Records
• Memory Run
• Memory Seishun no Hikari
• Memory Serves
• Memory Shell
• Memory Songs
• Memory Stick
• Memory Storage
• Memory T cell
• Memory Tapes
• Memory Technology Device
• Memory Type Range Registers
• Memory address
• Memory address register
• Memory and Destiny
• Memory and Humanity
• Memory and Identity
• Memory architecture
• Memory augmentation
• Memory bandwidth
• Memory bank
• Memory barrier
• Memory bound function
• Memory box
• Memory buffer register
• Memory bus
• Memory card
• Memory card compatibility chart
• Memory card connector
• Memory card reader
• Memory cell
• Memory cells (motor cortex)
• Memory clinic
• Memory coherence
• Memory configurator
• Memory conformity
• Memory confusion protocol
• Memory consolidation
• Memory controller
• Memory corruption
• Memory data register
• Memory debugger
• Memory dependence prediction
• Memory development
• Memory disambiguation
• Memory disorder
• Memory distrust syndrome
• Memory divider
• Memory effect
• Memory errors
• Memory foam
• Memory footprint
• Memory for Forgetfulness
• Memory for the future
• Memory geometry
• Memory hierarchy
• Memory hole
• Memory hole (disambiguation)
• Memory improvement
• Memory in Death (novel)
• Memory inhibition
• Memory leak
• Memory loss
• Memory management
• Memory management unit
• Memory manager
• Memory map
• Memory mapping
• Memory model
• Memory model (computing)
• Memory module
• Memory of Azov Egg
• Memory of Water (film)
• Memory of a Free Festival
• Memory of the World Programme
• Memory of the World Register – Africa
• Memory of the World Register – Arab States
• Memory of the World Register – Asia and the Pacific
• Memory of the World Register – Europe and North America
• Memory of the World Register – International Organizations
• Memory of the World Register – Latin America and the Caribbean
• Memory ordering
• Memory organisation
• Memory pool
• Memory protection
• Memory rank
• Memory refresh
• Memory rehearsal
• Memory safety
• Memory scrubbing
• Memory segmentation
• Memory span
• Memory sport
• Memory storage density
• Memory test
• Memory tester
• Memory timings
• Memory virtualization
• Memory work
• Memoryhouse
• Memorylessness
• Memorymoog
• Memoryshare
• Metamemory
• Methods used to study memory
• Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Millipede memory
• Minoru: Memory of Exile
• Misattribution of memory
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
• Molecular memory
• Mood-Dependent Memory
• More Than a Memory
• Muscle memory
• Muscle memory (strength training)
• Music-related memory
• MyMemory
• My Favorite Memory
• Mystic Chords of Memory
• Mystic Chords of Memory (album)
• Nation's Memory Institute
• Neuroanatomy of memory
• No Memory
• Non-Uniform Memory Access
• Non-volatile memory
• Non-volatile random-access memory
• Nonvolatile BIOS memory
• Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl
• Olfactory memory
• On Memory
• Organizational Memory System
• Organizational memory
• Out of memory
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
• Page (computer memory)
• Painted from Memory
• Paradigms of Human Memory
• Phase-change memory
• Phonographic Memory
• Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
• Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
• Plated wire memory
• Politics of memory
• Precious memory
• Prefrontal Cortex Basal Ganglia Working Memory
• Prenatal memory
• Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers
• Procedural memory
• Processor-in-memory
• Program Memory Area
• Programmable read-only memory
• Prospective memory
• Quicksand Memory EP
• Racetrack memory
• Random-access memory
• Read-only memory
• Read-write memory
• Recent Change Memory Administration Center
• Recognition memory
• Recovered memory
• Recovered memory therapy
• Redundant array of independent memory
• Regenerative capacitor memory
• Region-based memory management
• Registered memory
• Remain in Memory: The Final Show
• Remote Memory: A Tribute to Elliot Smith
• Remote direct memory access
• Repressed memory
• Resistive random-access memory
• Retrospective memory
• Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
• Ruin the Memory
• SIPP memory
• SXM (transactional memory)
• Seed of Memory
• Selective memory loss
• Semantic memory
• Semiconductor memory
• Sensory memory
• Sequential access memory
• Serial Port Memory Technology
• Serially Electrically Erasable Memory
• Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
• Shadow memory
• Shadows of Memory
• Shakespeare's Memory
• Shakespeare's Memory (book)
• Shape-memory alloy
• Shape-memory coupling
• Shape-memory polymer
• Shared Memory Architecture
• Shared memory
• She's Just an Old Love Turned Memory
• Short-term memory
• Sing, Memory
• Sleep and memory
• Socket G3 Memory Extender
• Software transactional memory
• Spatial memory
• Speak, Memory
• Stack-based memory allocation
• Static memory allocation
• Static random-access memory
• Storage (memory)
• Synchronous dynamic random-access memory
• Take Your Memory with You
• Take Yutaka G1 Memory
• Texas Memory Systems
• Texture memory
• The Armies of Memory
• The Art of Memory
• The Art of Memory (album)
• The Art of Memory II
• The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
• The Duplicated Memory
• The First Word in Memory Is Me
• The Harmonium in My Memory
• The Long Memory
• The Longest Memory
• The Melody Haunts My Memory
• The Memory Band
• The Memory Cathedral
• The Memory Cheats
• The Memory Game
• The Memory Hole (web site)
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• The Memory Maps Company Ltd
• The Memory Project
• The Memory Remains
• The Memory Thief
• The Memory of Earth
• The Memory of Justice
• The Memory of Our People
• The Memory of Running
• The Memory of Shadows
• The Memory of Trees
• The Memory of Water
• The Memory of Whiteness
• The Notebooks of Memory
• The Persistence of Memory
• The Persistence of Memory (novel)
• The Persistence of Memory (short story)
• The Seven Sins of Memory
• The Unforgettable Memory
• The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961–1987
• Thin-film memory
• To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
• Tobacco mosaic Virus memory
• Tournament in Łukasz Romanek Memory
• Trace Memory (Torchwood)
• Transactional memory
• Transactive memory
• Transcendent memory
• Translation Memory eXchange
• Translation memory
• Transsaccadic memory
• Treatment of ADHD through working memory training
• Twistor memory
• Type Stable Memory Management
• UK Memory of the World Register
• Unreachable memory
• W, or the Memory of Childhood
• Water memory
• What's a Memory Like You (Doing in a Love Like This)
• Where Do I Put Her Memory
• Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, Second Edition
• Women and Memory Forum
• World Heritage Memory Net
• Write-only memory
• Writing War: Fiction, Gender & Memory
• Www.memory
• X86 memory segmentation
• You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
• Your Memory
• Your Memory Ain't What It Used to Be