Sentence examples for flawed memory from inspiring English sources

Checklists are what the author describes as a "cognitive net", a mechanism that can help prevent experienced people from making errors due to flawed memory and attention, and ensure that teams work together.

In a stroke of imagination characteristic of Yehoshua, the films are dubbed in Spanish, complicating the director's often vague or flawed memory of his own movies with another layer and another kind of opacity.

Schacter typically begins with a topical anecdote involving some form of flawed memory -- how, for example, people's recollection of hearing about the verdict in the O. J. Simpson trial weakened over time.

Add to that our tendency to embellish the truth or our often flawed memory, and the natural erosion of facts that occur when stories are told through the Whisper-Down-the-Lane generations.

Tests like this have led to the theory that the narratives people recall as dreams are really the flawed memories of random thoughts.

Zuckerman is a busy man these days, which could explain his flawed meal memory.

In the history, "West Wind Clear," published by the agency's Center for Cryptologic History, the authors, Robert J. Hanyok and the late David Mowry, attribute accounts of the message being broadcast to the flawed or fabricated memory of some witnesses, perhaps to deflect culpability from other officials for the United States' insufficient readiness for war.

Further, recalls may be hindered by flawed short-term memory, resulting in unreported items (omissions) falsely-reported items (intrusions) (Smith, 1993; Baxter et al., 2006), and inaccurate reporting of amounts consumed (Neuhouser et al., 2008).

It's the type of brilliance that leaves you shaking in cold sweat, images of your life playing on fast-forward in your head while your mind is frantically scouring for flawed thinking and memories that you are hoping aren't there; it's the type of book that forces you to re-examine and re-evaluate everything you thought true in your life.

In These Are the Names, with its flawed, older protagonist, age and memory are recurrent motifs.

The enigmatic Mr. Megrahi had been the central figure of the case for decades, reviled as a terrorist but defended by many Libyans, and even some world leaders, as a victim of injustice whose trial, 12 years after the bombing, had been riddled with political overtones, memory gaps and flawed evidence.