The phrase "a subject to remember" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a topic or matter that is important enough to be retained in memory or considered noteworthy.
Example: "In our discussion about climate change, there are several key points that are a subject to remember for future reference."
Alternatives: "a topic worth noting" or "an important matter to recall".
Regarding the first (the relation between imagination and memory), a sizable literature has been devoted to the phenomenon of "imagination inflation" (Garry et al. 1996; Goff and Roediger 1998), whereby imagining an event can cause a subject to "remember" having experienced it.
For example, asking a subject to remember a particular number (storage) while adding a different set of numbers (manipulation) would constitute a test of working memory.
Similar to the timeline follow-back interview method, we used memory prompts, such as asking the subject to remember the year they were in high school to facilitate recall of the age that a relationship began and ended.
We used memory prompts, such as asking the subject to remember the year they were in high school, to facilitate recall of the age that a relationship began and ended.
Subjects with schizophrenia had a reduction in parietal P3 and Late Slow Wave amplitude in the ERP waveforms recorded when the task required subjects to remember a new stimulus.
In Vivid Print Ads Change Your Memory, I describe how incorporating vivid images in ads actually caused subjects to remember consuming a brand of popcorn they had not actually tried.
This method, which also was used after the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, hinges on the ability of study subjects to remember their activities, hour by hour, after a gap of several months.
In particular, there was a clear distinction between brain regions that are reliably activated in tasks requiring the subjects to remember object identity and object location, respectively (Rottschy et al. 2012).
In his 6 June radio address, George VI urged his subjects to remember 'this time four years ago [when] our nation and Empire stood against an overwhelming and implacable enemy, with our backs to the walls'.
Most other studies involved headache questionnaires and telephone interviews, which might have been inadequate for subjects to remember headaches or ask explanatory questions [13, 19, 25, 26].
