On a task involving motor skill learning, Kuriyama et al. [14] claimed that sleep can selectively improve overnight performance on memories that need the greatest improvement, although more recent studies have cast doubt on this result [15].
Christmas is all about memories that can never quite be recaptured, although year after year we try to summon them.
The idea is to disconnect the memory from the reactions to the memory, so that although the memory of the traumatic event remains, the everyday things that can trigger fear and panic, such as trash blowing across the interstate or a car backfiring — what psychologists refer to as cues — are restored to insignificance.
We don't ski to honour a memory, although that's nice when we think about it.
Analysis of prosody memory indicated that although participants were better than chance in remembering study prosody, their performance was nevertheless poor.
Although the memory of that show makes my spine feel like it's going to melt out of my body from embarrassment, it was a meaningful event for another reason: also on the bill was Maria Bamford.
And I'm pretty sure my sisters did, too, although my memory of that is a little cloudy.
And it's not just that relationships are seasoned by time and shared memories — although that's part of it, as is the inertia the researchers call the familiarity effect, which keeps people from leaving a longtime relationship even though he nags and she won't ask for directions.
The Torsten Frings issue was largely responsible for that, although there is a sense that Klinsmann has partially erased the memory of Florence.
It was not a happy experience, not so much for the pain of reliving the memories - although that was difficult enough - but for what Winter sees as the high-handedness of "experts" on the Holocaust.
