Sentence examples for better memory for from inspiring English sources

As is so often the case, the terrorists had a better memory for what had gone before than the government.

That would mean, for instance, that after the Challenger explosion people would have had better memory for all space-related news in the prior weeks.

The memory palace technique exploits the fact that we have a better memory for spaces, places and faces than for names and numbers: it's much easier to recall that someone is a baker, than that his surname is Baker.

"Using predictions based on what real synaesthetes do, there seemed to be a tendency towards the trained synaesthetes starting to behave like synaesthetes – having a better memory for things involved in their synaesthesia; if confirmed, that would be a good sign," Jonas says.

Ken Paller, the paper's senior author and a professor of psychology at Northwestern, said: "We call this Targeted Memory Reactivation, because the sounds played during sleep could produce relatively better memory for information cued during sleep compared to information not cued during sleep.

Reminding supported better memory for individual instances and transfer to new situations than comparison.

Synesthetes tend to have better memories, for one thing.

Women also have better memories for the spoken word, meaning that they do tend to retain the points of an argument that men have, perhaps wisely, long since forgotten.

Finally, there was a trend for better memory of rewarded outcomes in predictable as compared to unpredictable blocks (F1,14 = 3.315; p = 0.090).

This was the image he had, of his mother in an almost doll-like state, just two months before she died, and while he would have liked to have a better memory of her, he settled for the one he'd been given and closed his eyes to concentrate on it.

In addition, in predictable blocks reward-predicting cues were better remembered than cues predicting no reward (F1,14 = 6.428; p = 0.024); in unpredictable blocks, no such effect became apparent (there was even a trend for a better memory of stimuli which were not followed by a reward; F1,14 = 3.340; p = 0.089).