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
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
Taking action in response to information, in addition to simply seeing or hearing it, creates a richer memory trace and supplies alternative avenues for recalling the memory later on.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2014
Forgetting is greatest in the first hour after remembering, more than half of the memory trace being lost in that time.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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