Various kinds of this process were differentially impaired in Clive Wearing.
Several forms of this process, involving protein kinase A, were demonstrated in simple organisms like the sea hare Aplysia by Eric Kandel. One kind of this process can lead to repetition suppression. A "register" is the first component of this process according to a "modal" theory of it developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin. Various kinds of this process were differentially impaired in Clive Wearing. The action of this process with new stimuli was studied on patient Henry (*) Molaison. The selectivity of this process is partially explained by spike-timing-dependent plasticity, which explains why long-term potentiation doesn't always occur. George Miller proposed that one kind of this process is limited by the "magic number" "seven plus or minus two." This process proceeds in the steps: "encoding," "storage," and "retrieval." For 10 points, name this ability situated in the hippocampus, while the prefrontal cortex is home to its "working" or "short- term" type. 
Several forms of this process, involving protein kinase A, were demonstrated in simple organisms like the sea hare Aplysia by Eric Kandel.
memory [accept any more specific type of memory, e.g. working memory; prompt on "priming"; prompt on "learning"]