The phrase "age of a memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the duration or time elapsed since a particular memory was formed or experienced.
Example: "As I reflect on my childhood, I realize that the age of a memory can significantly affect how vividly I recall the details."
Alternatives: "duration of a memory" or "time since a memory".
Thus, nitrosylation appears to serve as an on-and-off switch that denotes the age of a memory.
This persistence raises the question of how the brain tells the age of a memory in the first place.
If there is such a thing as a memory trace that persists over time, then we could judge the age of a memory (and therefore how long ago the event remembered occurred) from the strength of the trace.
An agent or animal that does not have access to the age of a memory (the number of steps it has been held in working memory) may not be able to fully take advantage of the disambiguation information that we will discuss in detail below.
Interestingly, the average age of the memory varied in a diametrically opposite direction to the number of words recalled across the three affect conditions.
My maternal grandmother, who died a decade ago, at the age of a hundred and three, had two memories of what she called "The Old Country".
While disambiguation comes in part from the identity of observations in working memory or CASR memory, additional disambiguation information is provided by the age of an item in working memory or the number of steps of CASR memory retrieved.
This age of earliest memory seems to be a moving target".
Peterson et al. (2005) found evidence to suggest that the age of a child's earliest episodic memory is influenced by that child's current age, with younger children appearing capable of recollecting memories from significantly younger ages than older children.
Intensity was a more consistent predictor of autobiographical memory properties than was valence or the age of the memory in these experiments as well.
For memories of all specific emotions, intensity accounted for significantly more variance in autobiographical memory characteristics than did valence or age of the memory.
