Your memory
You may think that you have a ‘poor memory’. However, it may only be certain types of information that you find difficult to remember. This is because our memory is made up of many different parts. For example, different parts of the brain are required to remember a telephone number, music or an appointment next week. Sometimes the information we need has been ‘stored’ in our brain but we find it difficult to recall or retrieve it, this is when people describe something as being ‘on the tip of their tongue’.