Sentence examples for distortions of memory from inspiring English sources

All this detritus came in handy as I wrote 'Fun Home,' as a corrective to the inevitable distortions of memory.

Others are merely distortions of memory or interpretation -- perhaps, like her own, a bit too obedient to the needs of the story.

It is, at the same time, a distant, hazy chord, scored softly for the strings; Ives seldom evoked the past without also suggesting the emotional distortions of memory.

I'm trying to remember it partly because I don't have a copy of either book to hand – if only I had them on a Kindle – but mostly because memory and fiction, and the distortions of memory in fiction, is pretty much exactly what we were talking about at the International Forum on the Novel.

Those looking for a perfect adherence to fact have been looking for the wrong thing from memoir all along: that goal is not only impossible to achieve, given the distortions of memory, but would prove untenably boring if it ever were.

Apart from other factors that can produce distortions of memory retrieval (e.g., suggestive interview procedures; see [59], for an overview), our results clearly show that sleep deprivation is another critical factor that must be avoided in such situations.

Kundera claims Josef is "suffering from nostalgic insufficiency," then alters the diagnosis to "masochistic distortion of memory".

There was a long worktop, and beneath it the biggest lineup of white goods that Pat and I had ever seen – with the full distortion of memory, I would say eight or 12 different machines.

Two theoretical explanations for confirmation bias, i.e., the biased use of price information and the selective distortion of memory, fit the data.

Nolan's work explores existential, ethical and epistemological themes such as subjective experience, distortion of memory, human morality, the nature of time, and construction of personal identity.

Are Freud's descriptions of memory distortions due to repression essentially the same as those reported in Barlett's research on biographical memory, which was shown to be reconstructive and elaborative?