Memory is associated with the “reflection” or “recalling to mind” of something learned from a past experience. Human memory is an important part of human existence, but it is rarely comprehensible. Memory is a “mental journey through time” (Goldstein, 2011, p. 116). A memory can bring back the feeling of a situation, event, or experience that happened a long time ago. Memory is used to remember facts, new knowledge acquired, and to know how to use new knowledge or skills in everyday life (Goldstein, 2011). Sternberg (1999) defined memory as remembering a past experience to use the information in the future. Without memory, a person cannot function in the present or think about the future because it affects the ability to learn new knowledge. There are four main processes that occur in human memory: encoding, consolidation, storage, and retrieval or recall (see Figure 1 in Appendix 1). The first process in memory is encoding. Encoding is a biological development rooted in the senses and begins with perception (Mohs, 2007). Encoding is the first important step in creating a new memory. It allows the item perceived as interesting to be converted into information that can be stored in the brain and then recalled from short- or long-term memory (Mastin, 2010). Information extracted from sensory inputs into the memory system has been transformed into a form that the system can handle, and then stored. The scientist believes that the hippocampus with the frontal cortex is responsible for analyzing various sensory inputs before deciding to store information in long-term memory (Martin, 2007). This different information is then stored in different parts of the brain, then identified and retrieved to form a coherent memory. Even... middle of paper..., by “replaying” a form of neural activity that is generated first in response to a specific event. Events in the brain are linked together by associations and neural networks. Memory can be retrieved quickly if the nerve pathways formed by the brain during memory encoding are firm. In the brain area system, the most common aspects of retrieving information about words and additional areas of the brain become active when words need to be specifically retrieved from episodic memory. In particular, once words are retrieved from memory without regard to the context in which they were learned, a network of brain regions becomes active. Activation involves the left frontal cortex along the inferior frontal gyrus and extending to the frontal opercular cortex, as well as the multiple regions of the supplementary motor area (Cansino, 2002).