Memory may hold the key to time perception, as the clarity of our memories is believed to mould our experience of time.
The remarks on the items were further categorized into those concerning 1) comprehension difficulties, 2) clarity, 3) knowledge and recall (ease of memory retrieval), and 4) ease of judgment and other spontaneous comments.
Participants were asked to self-complete the PRO-CTCAE and make remarks on the items and response options they evaluated as "difficult to understand" or "difficult to answer" regarding: 1) comprehensibility; 2) clarity; 3) knowledge and recall (ease of memory retrieval); and 4) judgment (adequacy of response options).
One of the bonuses of being 68, Jacobi says, is the ever-burgeoning clarity of one's long-term memory.
People do not show problems with their memory or clarity of thought until very late on in the disease.
The cognitive concepts (negative perceptions/thoughts, problems with concentration/focus, memory problems, clarity of thought, indecisiveness, and lack of confidence) were also commonly experienced by patients and accepted as important to the questionnaires.
These included: i) emotional (11 concepts such as angry and helpless), ii) cognitive (six concepts including memory and clarity of thought), iii) motivation, iv) work, v) sleep (three concepts), vi) appetite (two concepts), vii) social (four concepts), viii) activities of daily living (two concepts), ix) tired/fatigue, x) body pain, and xi) suicidality (three concepts).
Although the sentences are always labyrinthine and sometimes exhausting, the feeling at the end of each chapter is one of clarity rather than of murk: a little piece of memory has been polished bright.
Even an extraordinary moment in the last shot, in which the emotional burden of memory appears with a bracing clarity, is rapidly dispelled by Gitai's self-important camera gesticulations.
Today, Mr. Bush's speech and the outpouring of 60-year tributes show, in the view of the historian David M. Kennedy, how much Americans long for moral clarity, and how a traumatic event has entered the more comfortable zone of memory.
