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Ontogeny : from Greek on (ontos), being + genes, born of – defined as the history of the development of an individual (as opposed to Phylogeny from Greek phulon, race, phule, tribe + geneia, birth, origin – defined as the history of the development of a species of related organisms). These two concepts are used to distinguish the development of the individual as opposed to the species.
Learning and memory are two processes which are so intertwined that it becomes difficult to think about one of them without making an abstraction of the other. Memory is the most important dimension of human experience and the illustration and manifestation of its quintessence can be viewed as learning. Memory retains all that we perceive in the form of sensory information from the outside world through our five senses – visual, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, and auditory. This sensory information is integrated and interpreted by the...
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Motah, M. (2012). Ontogeny of Memory and Learning. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_715
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