The phrase "strengthened memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing improvements or enhancements to one's ability to remember information.
Example: "The new study techniques have significantly contributed to a strengthened memory, allowing students to retain information more effectively."
Alternatives: "enhanced memory" or "improved memory."
So it made more sense to focus on the negative effects of waking experience on memory, rather than attribute some biological phenomenon in sleep that actively strengthened memory.
We found that during extinction induction NF-κB levels of activity are significantly diminished in the brain, and that the pharmacological inhibition of NF-κB during extinction training strengthened memory extinction.
This unintentional retrieval of emotional events might have strengthened memory traces of PA participants and facilitated the transfer to new clinical problems.
During both periods the brain undergoes physical and chemical changes whose interaction may be what strengthens memory traces.
Terror during trauma focuses one's attention, strengthening memory for the most salient features of the experience, and occasionally at the expense of less salient ones as the phenomenon of "weapon focus" illustrates.
The Posit Science software, sold commercially under the names Brain Fitness Program and InSight, is supposed to strengthen memory, attention, language skills and visual-spatial abilities in aging adults.
The idea behind many popular video and online "brain-training" games is that practicing tasks that strengthen memory, attention and other mental processes will make you a smarter person.
Noradrenaline (NA) strengthens memory (re consolidation.
At any age, however, it is possible to sharpen and strengthen memory (Kesler et al., 2011).
(Bybee 2006: 10) Bybee contends that high-frequency tokens are more accessible and resistant to change because "repetition strengthens memory representations".
Because sleep strengthens memory, Ditye and colleagues decided to test whether visual adaptation also improves after some shuteye. .
