fMRI activation was measured in response to a semantic memory task requiring participants to discriminate famous from non-famous names.
Kochan, N. A. et al. Functional alterations in brain activation and deactivation in mild cognitive impairment in response to a graded working memory challenge.
I made this suggestion once at a literary festival in response to a question about the memory sequences in my novels, and I could see people exchanging looks and pulling faces, so it could well be there's something very peculiar about me.
However, these participants are more likely to terminate the search at an intermediate level (general event knowledge), thus producing overgeneral memories in response to a request for specific autobiographical memories.
For instance when people are asked to provide a memory in response to a cue word, or when they report the years they encountered their favourite books and movies, they disproportionately recount memories from young adulthood.
When an individual is requested to retrieve an autobiographical memory in response to a cue word, a retrieval model is first created against which knowledge is accessed, evaluated and elaborated for further search.
Last October, Baltasar Garzón, in response to a petition filed by thirteen historical-memory associations, decreed that Franco and thirty-four others were guilty of crimes against humanity — "a preconceived and systematic plan of elimination of political opponents through mass killings, tortures, exile, and forced disappearances".
When right-handed people move their eyes up and to the left in response to a question, they are picturing a real memory.
Enhanced generation of primary and memory CTL in response to a stressful infection was reported to increase inflammatory and anti-viral cytokine secretion and enhance killing (Mays et al. 2010, 2012).
These stories... were written in response to an invitation for memories of miserable Christmases.
