Memory training for older adults often produces gains that are limited to the particular memory tasks encountered during training.
In the new research, Wimber and her colleagues watched how information travels through the brain when an image was reconstructed from memory, not encountered in person.
Certain smells go all the way down to the core of memory, and encountering them again can set off reverberations.
The initial spark was a powerful memory of encountering news reports of the hunger strike on television as an 11-year-old, before he grasped its political meaning.
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant testified on Tuesday that his memory of encounters more than 40 years ago is dim, though his recollection of the creation of the band's epic Stairway to Heaven was quite clear.
Dr. Miller borrowed a testing model from the emerging science of computer programming in the early 1950s to show that humans' short-term memory, when encountering the unfamiliar, could absorb roughly seven new things at a time.
Phillip B. Crook: What is your first memory of encountering a queer story onscreen?
The first was the extent to which their memory for encountering that object involved specific visual information about the event for example, clearly remembering the colors or shape of the object or of items in the surroundings, the light in the room, and so forth.
Episodic theories suggest that categories are represented in memory by storing previously encountered exemplars in memory.
Over the course of three days, H.M. improved his performance of this task, even though he had no explicit memory of having encountered it on previous days.
