Editing Visual memory (section)

{{Short description|Ability to process visual and spatial information}}

[[File:Iris close-up.jpg|thumb|Close up of the [[human eye]], the main organ of visual sensation]]

'''Visual memory''' describes the relationship between perceptual processing and the [[Encoding (memory)|encoding]], [[Storage (memory)|storage]] and [[Recall (memory)|retrieval]] of the resulting neural representations. Visual memory occurs over a broad time range spanning from eye movements to years in order to visually navigate to a previously visited location.<ref name="M1">Berryhill, M. (2008, May 09). Visual memory and the brain. Retrieved from http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia2008_4.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728163041/http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia2008_4.html |date=2011-07-28 }}</ref> Visual memory is a form of memory which preserves some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in memory visual information which resembles objects, places, animals or people in a mental image. The experience of visual memory is also referred to as the [[mind's eye]] through which we can retrieve from our memory a mental image of original objects, places, animals or people.<ref name="M1" /> Visual memory is one of several cognitive systems, which are all interconnected parts that combine to form the human memory.<ref>Magnussen, S. (2009). Cognition and Neurosciences: Implicit visual working memory, 50, 532-542</ref> Types of [[palinopsia]], the persistence or recurrence of a visual image after the [[stimulus (psychology)|stimulus]] has been removed, is a dysfunction of visual memory.<ref name=Gersztenkorn>{{cite journal|last1=Gersztenkorn|first1=D|last2=Lee|first2=AG|title=Palinopsia revamped: A systematic review of the literature|journal=Survey of Ophthalmology|date=Jul 2, 2014|pmid=25113609|doi=10.1016/j.survophthal.2014.06.003|volume=60|issue=1|pages=1–35}}</ref>