Take a recent project in which researchers either encouraged people to think of using a coupon when they saw a stuffed alien on a cash register--a distinctive memory cue--or to think of using their coupon when they saw a cash register--an everyday memory cue.
The current best solutions are stored in distinctive memory.
Cognitive theorists have argued that the former reflects conceptual processing and is based on distinctive memory traces whereas the latter is associated with perceptual analysis and reflects fluency of processing.
However, I have one distinctive memory of playing her Biggie's "Ten Crack Commandments" around the time I came out of the closet at 16.
The lesson of previous Paralympics is that they almost always surprise with the impact they make and the distinctive memories they leave behind.
If the relevant lung T cells possess a distinctive phenotype of memory, homing or activation markers, perhaps low numbers of comparable cells could be detected in the circulation.
"That's a real plus, because a distinctive voice lasts in the memory of listeners as part of their experience of the music".
Try using a distinctive smell to see what memories it dredges up for the writer, which can then be used to start a story.
It has been argued that it is a distinctive functional property of human declarative memory (which is taken to be conscious) that subjects are able to discern the presence and absence of such memories (Tulving and Schacter 1990).
The cinema has lagged behind; some of its modernists — including Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Akerman — have made mighty attempts to create a memory-cinema of a distinctive style.
Nonetheless, it's an impressive, original, and memorable movie, with a distinctive tone and voice that will linger in memory.
