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memory

英 ['mem(ə)rɪ] 美['mɛməri]

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n. 记忆，记忆力；内存，[计] 存储器；回忆
n. (Memory)人名；(英)梅默里

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You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.

This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.

The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

Some people with HSAM find it very hard to get rid of unpleasant memories.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.

My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping, he explains.

Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

It keeps our most precious memories until life's end.

It is a way of organising our memories.

It helps get rid of negative memories.

It frees us from painful memories.

It adds to the burden of their memory.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.

In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.

How new technology hinders memory capacity.

Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.

He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail.

For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

Each time this initial memory trace is replayed, it becomes even stronger.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

A young woman sought explanation from a brain scientist when she noticed her unusual memory.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

To his classmates and even to his teachers, he was thought of as the dumbest kid in the class,according to his own not so fond memories.

A new study suggested that our short-term memory also may play a role in appetite.

This disparity (差异) suggests the memory of our previous meal may have a bigger influence on our appetite than the actual size of the meal

We have identified an independent role for memory for that meal,'" Brunstrom says

"highly superior autobiographical memory" or HSAM for short, first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named jill Price.

"My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping," he explains.

A review of 54 studies found that eating breakfast can improve memory, though the effects on other brain functions were inconclusive.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a "perfect" memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive visual memory.

Each time this initial memory trace is "replayed", it becomes even stronger.

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

Physical activity can improve blood flow to the brain, fueling memory, attention and creativity, which are essential to learning.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, found that those who engaged in crafts like knitting and crocheting had a diminished chance of developing mild cognitive disorder and memory loss.

The study, published online in April in the journal Memory and Cognition, found that the "wrong" name is not random but is invariably fished out from the same relationship pond: children, siblings, friends.

There are many things that can cause confusion and memory loss, including health problems like temporary stoppage of breathing during sleep, high blood pressure, or depression, as well as medications like antidepressants.

This type of memory where you are trying to remember new, but similar informatio is particularly vulnerable to interference.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

What your memory needs is a good workout.

So really, those supplements aren’t going to give you that perfect memory in the way that they promise.

Is there really a magic memory pill or a herbal recall remedy? I have been frequently asked if these memory supplements work.

Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects "exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition.

They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs .

Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories.

He has better memories of childhood

What a terrible memory you have!

Another study also found eating a high-fat and high-sugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learning and memory similar to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

For example, one study found healthy adults assigned to a high-fat diet for five days showed impaired attention, memory, and mood compared with a low-fat diet control group.

For most of us, the best plan is to take in new information in the morning and then try to consolidate it into memory during the afternoon.

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

More recently, as he reported in a 2012 review, lieberman has discovered that this region may be part of a distinct network involved in socially motivated learning and memory.

Recent research has also shown that indulging in a high-fat and high-sugar diet may have negative effects on your brain, causing learning and memory deficits.

So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

So really, those supplements aren't going to give you that perfect memory in the way that they promise.

Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

Take plenty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chance to do some preliminary consolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.

The study also found that when subjects thought about and later recalled descriptions in terms of their informational content, regions associated with factual memory, such as the medial temporal lobe, became active.

When you have done this, try to organize your life so that the time set aside for learning coincides with the time when your memory is at its best.

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn't need a cure.

A common memory they all have of their school days is the school uniform.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly the persistence of memory.

Even in its current state, the Internet has extended my memory and judgment.

For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have.

I must have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books.

In transactive memory, people remember how to find the information.

Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.

It's as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.

Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.

More generally, the Internet functions as if it were my memory.

One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories.

She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory.

Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.

The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.

Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner.

Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden.

This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

This is called " transactive memory".

We have poorer memories than before.

We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.

We tend to have a better memory for things that excite our senses or appeal to our emotions than for straight facts.

We'd also like to visit graceland, the popular museum in memory of elvis presley.

As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.

The Web-based program allows you to systematically improve your memory and attention skills.

We believe that if animals ran the labs, they would test us to determine the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for locations.