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The Trained Memory - Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the - Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and - Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
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THE MECHANISM OF RECALL

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CHAPTER III

THE MECHANISM OF RECALL

[Sidenote: _The Right Stimulus_]

Somehow, somewhere, all experiences, whether subject to voluntary recall
or not, are preserved, and are capable of reproduction when the right
stimulus comes along.

And it is a law that _those experiences which are associated with each
other, whether ideas, emotions or voluntary or involuntary muscular
movements, tend to become bound together into groups, and these groups
tend to become bound together into systems_.

[Sidenote: _"Complexes" of Experience_]

Such a system of associated groups of experiences is technically known
as a "complex."