The phrase "make new memories" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase whenever you want to say that you are creating something that you can remember fondly at a later time. For example, you might say, "We made a lot of new memories during our family vacation."
You make new memories that the person you lost isn't a part of any more.
"Conditions such as Alzheimer's affect the ability to make new memories and to decode language," he said.
"I can't make new memories," explains Leonard Shelby Guy Pearcee), the vengeance-seeking insurance investigator at the center of "Memento," Christopher Nolan's ingenious new thriller.
"Previously, people would argue that neurons only help make new memories," said neurobiologist and study author Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Which is why I thought, 'I'm going to make new memories.' I'm going to go out there and grab every opportunity and I want to completely change my life.
Mr. Pearce plays an insurance investigator afflicted with short-term amnesia ("I can't make new memories," he explains), trying to track down his wife's murderer with the help of a sheaf of Polaroids, a chest full of tattoos and a couple of shady characters.
He stopped making new memories in an all-out effort to preserve the ones he already had.
Sweat-stained and flecked with sawdust, he occasionally looked up to see his wife and his two children in their altered yard, working, making new memories.
The brain's center for making new memories, the hippocampus, lost 8percentt of its tissue, comparable to the brain deficits in early Alzheimer's.
Previous studies had revealed that the suppression of memories is linked to a decrease in activity in the hippocampus - the area of the brain involved with making new memories and retrieving old ones.
For sentimental reasons, Cai likes maintaining this connection to his birthplace — "it makes me remember, and it makes new memories," he told me — but he also values the artisanship there.
