As she survives the night in the field, her thoughts wander across a span of memories that are the accumulation of a lifetime.
The broadcaster James Naughtie, who chaired this year's panel of five judges, called the line-up of the 13 writers on the longlist, chosen from 132 books, "one of the strongest in recent memory" with "a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix".
It is 27 years since Sands died - the first of 10 Republicans to starve themselves to death at the Maze prison in protest at their status as criminal rather than political prisoners - but Fassbender, who is from Killarney, knows that is barely a blink in the long span of Irish memory.
However, extant research suggests that this position is not well supported by evidence on the span of active memory during online sentence processing, nor is it well motivated by models that make explicit claims about the memory mechanisms that support language processing.
No one knows the normal life span of the memory cells.
Since the signals are experienced well within the time span of working memory one might expect that these signals might be grouped together to form a unique compound.
The maximum is achieved when the variability is great enough, yet the mean ISI is not longer than the time span of intrinsic memory.
It thus appears that the training conditions in the T-maze favor associative learning of multiple sequential stimuli experienced within the time span of sensory/working memory as tested in trace conditioning paradigms.
WM capacity may be assessed using behavioral tasks that result in a quantitative measure of memory span.
Several cognitive tests were negatively associated with UAs only in boys, and the Digit Span subscale, an evaluation of memory, was significantly associated with UAs only in girls.
Because Chinese number words are so brief — they take less than a quarter of a second to say, on average, compared with a third of a second for English — the average Chinese speaker has a memory span of nine digits, versus seven digits for English speakers.
