To date, the field of memory research has primarily moved forward on two legs - studying subjects with normal memories, or those with memory deficits. This presents the opportunity for a new leg of research, the study of individuals who have exceptionally strong abilities related to memory that do not rely on mnemonic devices, but presumably have more of a genetic basis.
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Related This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON My experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Fact, ideas, suggestio... ELIZABETH LOFTUS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We propose that use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in memory for details directly... JENNIFER J. FREYD In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in labo... JENNIFER J. FREYD (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! ASHIM SHANKER He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much... CAROLINE GREEN Loftus was asked to be an expert witness because the idea of memories as formed through a manipulabl... JANICE DOANE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Without the mellifluous notes of memory, there would be no songs to sing, no ballads dedicated to pa... KILROY J. OLDSTER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful m... NATSUKI TAKAYA Research has shown that some simple memory training classes can go a long way in improving memory al... GARY SMALL I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn s... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at the... W. G. SEBALD You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I. ROBERT JORDAN What most people call spontaneous recall usually involves memories that have been denied, not repres... RENEE FREDRICKSON If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from ... TAYLOR CALDWELL We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about th... SUZY KASSEM Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories . If I am going to have a true memory, t... THOMAS MERTON Most of us are familiar with the fact that we can remember things better if those memories are forme... JAMES OLSON Most of us are familiar with the fact that we can remember things better if those memories are forme... JAMES OLSON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I rely on my memory a lot. LANCE RUTLEDGE The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t... W. G. SEBALD It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the ... ANNE RICE Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretche... EMMA LAZARUS genetic or ancestral memory. BRITTANY MURPHY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in r... JULIAN HUXLEY A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL With a 64-bit workstation, we're allowed to have more memory, and with that artists can get more ima... CLIFF PLUMER Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bod... JOHN CAMERON The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ... EUGENE IONESCO It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths.... SOURCE UNKNOWN When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. Then your focus direct... THE TRUTH Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the d... W.B. YEATS Despite the fact that “False Memory Syndrome” remained undefined and had never been the subject ... STEPHANIE J. DALLAM I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax ... ROBERT INGPEN The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ... EUGENE IONESCO This is a loss not just for the world Jewish community but for all those who believe in justice and ... ED MORGAN With a smaller browser, you leave more room in your RAM [random-access memory] for data. And with th... JON VON TETZCHNER The framing of women’s abuse narratives as quasi-legal testimony encourages the public, as interpr... SUE CAMPBELL Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape record... NEIL GAIMAN We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our ... JOSHUA FOER You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell... VACLAV HAVEL Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgivin... LEWIS B. SMEDES A person experiences time by traveling through the environment consisting of time and space, and enc... KILROY J. OLDSTER I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I ha... EVAN HUNTER The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit. PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. JAMES BRANCH CABELL There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. JAMES BRANCH CABELL There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. JAMES BRANCH CABELL In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The cholinergic system consists of neurotransmitters that regulate a lot of our mental functioning, ... KAREN RITCHIE In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody’s... KILROY J. OLDSTER History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. LORD ACTON (History is) not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Larry Brown doesn't have to prove anything, the players do. I don't think they have a player on thei... FRANK LAYDEN I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. ... ELAINE SWANN I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own... TOBIAS WOLFF There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases li... JENNIFER DOUDNA It's no surprise that age-related losses or lapses in memory can challenge our deeply embedded sense... MARGIE LACHMAN Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ... JOHN IRVING God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ... JOHN PIPER I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are ... PAT BOWLEN No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their... LOUIS L'AMOUR This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the l... ARUNDHATI ROY In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are... GUSTAV STRESEMANN
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