memory trace

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

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

When we make neural connections to a song, we also create a strong memory trace that becomes laden with heightened emotion, thanks partly to a surfeit of pubertal growth hormones.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2014

Forgetting may be explained by some such loss of the memory trace or deposit into the blood continually flowing by it.

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