Robert Hooke compared this process to phosphorescence's re-emission of light from a no longer present source, in a 1682 treatise on a "Hypothetical Explication of" this process.
David Hartley claimed that this process worked through the creation of traces by "vibratiuncles". Robert Hooke compared this process to phosphorescence's re-emission of light from a no longer present source, in a 1682 treatise on a "Hypothetical Explication of" this process. Participants were asked to retell the Canadian Indian "War of the Ghosts" story in a study by Frederic Bartlett that suggested that this process is reconstructive rather than reproductive. In the Roman Empire, lawyers owned slaves called graeculi whose sole job was to employ this process. Henri Bergson divided this into a "pure" form (*) that preserves the spiritual essence of an occurrence and a "habit" form that reproduces an idea as a biological mechanism. The Rhetorica ad Herennium influenced Quintillian and Cicero's advocacy of the "method of loci" in which this process is improved by mentally placing objects in rooms within a palace. For 10 points, name this process of storing and retrieving information in the mind. 
David Hartley claimed that this process worked through the creation of traces by "vibratiuncles".
memory [accept obvious equivalents like "remembering"]