At the end of the year, as hundreds of impressions — strong recollections and weak echoes — rattle around….
At the end of the year, as hundreds of impressions — strong recollections and weak echoes — rattle around in a critic's overstressed brain, memorable movies tend to gather in groups.
While fMRI tests distinguished between rich recollection and a weak memory, the researchers could not prove whether those memories were based on the recollection of an actual experience.
Interestingly, performance on the conceptual recollection task was weaker for participants who rated themselves as more similar to Obama, replicating previous research (Benoit et al. 2010).
Visually, the effects for delayed recollection are overall just weaker than for immediate recollection.
"We were able to differentiate between rich recollection, strong familiarity or a weak memory," said Anthony Wagner, an associate professor of psychology who conducted the experiments with postdoctoral fellow Jesse Rissman and law Professor Hank Greely.
"My recollection was this was a rather weak case," Mr. Watson, who retired from the F.B.I. later that year, said.
However, recollection effects in these regions were weaker in general, consistent with previous findings that cortical activity associated with recollection of verbal materials tends to be strongest in the left hemisphere (Yonelinas et al., 2005).
Mr Grass may have satisfied his three hungers, but he has left a corner of doubt: why should his recollection of those few combatant months appear so weak?
The Duchess of Marlborough "unduly disparaged" Anne in her memoirs, and her prejudiced recollections persuaded many biographers that Anne was "a weak, irresolute woman beset by bedchamber quarrels and deciding high policy on the basis of personalities".
