"transitory memory" is a correct term that can be used in written English.
It usually refers to the short-term memory of a person, which is a type of memory in which items are stored for a brief amount of time (often only a few seconds). For example: Alice had a hard time remembering what her professor said the day before; her transitory memory was failing her.
"Whether he was a ghost," Dickens writes, "or a spectral illusion of conscience, or a drunken man who had no business there, or the drunken rightful owner of the furniture, with a transitory gleam of memory; whether he got safe home, or had no home to get to; whether he died of liquor on the way, or lived in liquor ever afterwards; he was heard of no more".
He moved among transitory lives, remembering them for us.
Conway and Pleydell-Pearce proposed that autobiographical memories are transitory dynamic mental constructions, which are retrieved from an "autobiographical memory base", where each specific memory is stored as part of a general event, which in turn is part of a lifetime period.
In another study, a "memory" of transitory FGF had a long-lasting effect on the fibroblast response to the secondary FGF stimulation; this memory reduced rather than increased their proliferation [ 62].
This kind of puzzle offers cryptic clues instead of bald definitions, and the pleasures involved in solving it are the deeply satisfactory ones of following and matching a devious mind (that of the puzzle's author) rather than the transitory ones of an encyclopedic memory".
Kirstein managed to meet Balanchine at a party later that summer, and almost at once the choreographer volunteered the critical facts that French dancers were too lazy ("always take time out for lunch"), that ballets were as transitory as butterflies ("a breath, a memory"), and that he would like to go to America.
But reconsolidation, with its eerie implication that our memories are inauthentic or transitory, was highly disputed.
Josh Dorman uses collage to capture memories, feelings and other transitory phenomena.
These results indicate that the mechanism that suppresses the autoimmune response in P. chabaudi infection is transitory and does not generate a specific memory.
Transitory cognitive disturbances mainly affecting short-term memory and attention have also been identified.
