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memory trace

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Researchers designed this delay to interfere with the memory trace associated with the critical experience, potentially strengthening the intervention's effects.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

"Your brain stores a memory trace for different configurations of the cube, and it can run through different configurations to predict which will have the best outcome."

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

Once this fact is appreciated, then proper testing protocols can be put in place to minimize the likelihood that the original memory trace is contaminated.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2017

The movement and tactile response involved in handwriting leaves a memory trace in the sensorimotor part of the brain, which are retrieved when reading the letters involved.

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

The thyroid appears to be essential to the laying down of the memory trace.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.


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