The phrase "an absence of memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a lack of recollection or remembrance of past events or information.
Example: "After the accident, he experienced an absence of memory regarding the events leading up to it."
Alternatives: "lack of memory" or "memory loss".
He wheezes with laughter, basking in the delightful lack of an absence of memory.
Ambition, appetite, and an absence of memory lay waste to a once exquisitely delicate environment of wetlands and beaches.
The setting, in Gopnik's words, is "a paradise despoiled," a land where "ambition, appetite, and an absence of memory lay waste to a once exquisitely delicate environment of wetlands and beaches".
This is simply an argument for honesty, an argument to oppose relentlessly those who, sustained by an ignorance related to an absence of memory, try to delegitimize Israel--and who sometimes, unfortunately, succeed.
Understanding psychological factors associated with those individuals who report an absence of memories that flash back may inform preventative treatments against this distressing after effect of trauma.
An absence of memory-related brain activity to reminders thus indicates that suspects are not remembering an associated crime at that specific time, but does not determine that they have no such crime memories stored in their brain.
The data indicate an absence of fear memory recall 72 h after learning.
Other potential reasons for an absence of extinction memory recall in the DCS group are interactions of DCS with menstrual cycle or subjects' potential alcohol consumption (Trevisan et al. 2008) that might theoretically affect (impair) extinction memory consolidation more strongly than fear memory consolidation.
Such findings are consistent with the proposal that an apparent inflexibility in infants' memory may be driven by their lack of world knowledge and experience, and not necessarily by an absence of a flexible associative/relational memory ability.
FVB mice are generally very active animals and freezing behavior was not observed (freezing percentage<1.5%) for any of the genotypes during the training session or the contextual recall, showing an absence of short-term working memory and contextual learning.
Absence of memory for a period may produce a condition similar to post-traumatic stress disorder [ 6].
