Redintegration

Redintegration refers to the restoration of the whole of something from a part of it. The everyday phenomenon is that a small part of a memory can remind a person of the entire memory, for example, “recalling an entire song when a few notes are played.”[1] In cognitive psychology the word is used in reference to phenomena in the field of memory, where it is defined as "the use of long-term knowledge to facilitate recall."[2] The process is hypothesised to be working as "pattern completion", where previous knowledge is used to facilitate the completion of the partially degraded memory trace.[3]

  1. ^ "APA Dictionary of Psychology". dictionary.apa.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ^ Allen Baddeley (2007). Working Memory, Thought, and Action. Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 24.
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