Because of the serial position effect, we can most easily recall the first and last things we do, while the in-between activities tend to get muddled.
They were invariably covered in butter or ghee on both sides, though the stuffing changed with the seasons – I can easily recall at least 20 variations.
Networks prize candor and energy; they easily recall the on-air dullness of George Seifert, the former 49ers coach, in CBS's N.F.L. studio in 1998.
Older New Yorkers will easily recall these names and others, Younger ones may have to seek help from fathers and mothers.
Voters heard little about policy during the campaigning, but heard plenty from personalities whose names they could easily recall on polling day.
But according to Boaler, when students are stressed – such as when they are solving math questions under time pressure – the working memory becomes blocked and the students cannot as easily recall the math facts they had previously studied.
There are many instruments and thus far more notes to be memorized; even if you can easily recall the musical substance, the matter of who's playing what, when, with whom is complex and constantly shifting.
I can easily recall when, as a child, I discovered (and poked) one member of the Western Mimicry ring as she ran across the hot sand, and was immediately intimidated by her desperate-sounding squeaks.
Admirers of Pollack's work (of whom there may be rather fewer after this latest effort) will easily recall the first of those usages in Three Days of the Condor (1975).
On the other hand, they could easily recall their high-school state of mind, and feel indignant all over again, utterly convinced that they had done the right thing.
