To recall the content, imagine yourself retracing the same path you used to memorize the list of items.
Fourteen years ago, in the summer of 1992, I retraced the same journey while researching my biography of Levi.
In February they began retracing the same long route back, flying incredibly fast – the swifts have been recorded hitting speeds of more than 110km/h.
I have retraced the same path several times since, always finding something different and always feeling rejuvenated by the slowed pace, the human scale and just enough remnants of the old days to fire the imagination.
Sometimes Wookiee and I look at each other, heads cocked, unable to express our feelings for the other except through simple actions performed routinely, year upon year upon year: retracing the same blocks of our neighborhood each morning, playing fetch (shhhhh, illegally) in the park in the early evening, falling asleep with our sides touching, to warm ourselves in the air-conditioned night.
Mystery Train, for instance, retraces the same few hours as it interweaves several stories of Presley fans in Memphis, while in Broken Flowers Bill Murray crisscrosses America visiting old girlfriends (all played by well-known actresses) to discover which one bore him a son.
Subsequent chapters are redundant, retracing the same material several times rather than providing a cogent presentation from start to finish.
After the maximum displacement value of 5 mm had been reached, the applied displacement was decreased through the same steps from 5 mm to 0. After that, a second loading cycle was performed: the displacement was again increased, retracing the same steps from 0 to 5 mm.
Because the brain has to work so much, it is not necessarily retracing the same neural pathways but instead using new ones," which improves memory, Powers says.
