Learning by associations Children learn quickly by making associations. Then they remember through those associations. A child, even a small child who may not yet been able to walk, can recognise a chair whether it is large or small, or regardless of its colour. Similarly, people will be able to identify a chair even from a bad drawing. And they will recognise (remember) people even when they are wearing a hat covering their head or a scarf covering their mouth.
Natural memory is generally involuntary; confirmation of this statement is the well-known impossibility of voluntary forgetting (memorization and forgetting are two sides of the same memory mechanism).
As for the recognition of partially visible objects, this reflects not the specific functionality of neurons (which are represented by several dozen varieties that arose from the need to have different functionality), but the specificity of the natural algorithm for forming a representation of a visible scene in the form of a set of logical objects. These are very distant logical/structural levels of the nervous control system.
Natural memory is generally involuntary; confirmation of this statement is the well-known impossibility of voluntary forgetting (memorization and forgetting are two sides of the same memory mechanism).
As for the recognition of partially visible objects, this reflects not the specific functionality of neurons (which are represented by several dozen varieties that arose from the need to have different functionality), but the specificity of the natural algorithm for forming a representation of a visible scene in the form of a set of logical objects. These are very distant logical/structural levels of the nervous control system.