`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

Anecdotes, memories, funny episodes, are strung in a rough timeline, with more emphasis on eccentric characters, lovely scenery, than factual accuracy.

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

The Reuters news agency nicknamed Gate House " U of T's Animal House " because Donald Sutherland's memories of its parties are said to have influenced the script of the 1978 movie.

** The program and data memories are often integrated on the same chip.

This is because these fast, but complex and expensive, memories are inherently limited in size, making compact code beneficial.

Of course, the fundamental reason they are needed is that main memories ( i. e. dynamic RAM today ) remain slow compared to a ( high performance ) CPU-core.

Transistors for logic, PLAs, and microcode are no longer scarce resources ; only large high-speed cache memories are limited by the maximum number of transistors today.

Magneto and Karima Shapandar are able to stir Xavier's memories and coax him out of his coma, though Xavier remains slightly confused and partly amnesiac.

Semantic memories are those that store general factual knowledge that is independent of personal experience.

Episodic memories are those that store specific events such as attending a class or flying to France.

These are instances in which memories of powerful emotional events are more highly detailed and enduring than regular memories ( e. g. September 11 attacks, assassination of JFK ).

Together these studies show that newly learned memories are reactivated during sleep and through this process new memory traces are consolidated.

Digimon who are reincarnated in this way will sometimes retain some or all their memories of their previous life.

It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage.

It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled.

Trace decay theory explains memories that are stored in both short term and long term memory system.

" Flashbulb memories " are another piece of seemingly contradicting evidence.

Retrieval of these memories can be thought of as mentally reliving the past events they concern.

Putatively, the experience of either thought insertion / removal or unconscious memories of psychological symbiosis may have led to the invention of " telepathy " as a notion and the belief that telepathy exists.

Those poems are generally thought to have been composed sometime in the 9th or 8th centuries BC, but may have made use of older mythological and poetic traditions ; their depiction of the hero Odysseus, and his rule over Ithaca and the surrounding islands and mainland, preserve somes memories of the political geography, customs and society of the time.

** Dentate gyrus: thought to contribute to new memories

On the other hand, if Mark had thought that his fellow Christians ' memories of Peter's recollections about Jesus removed the need to make a definitive record of them, he would have had little reason to write his Gospel-account at all.

When enough related memories are primed that an interrelated concept, word, thought, or image " pops " into consciousness and you are unaware of the extent of its relatedness within your memory.

A personal narrative process is involved in a person's sense of personal or cultural identity, and in the creation and construction of memories ; it is thought by some to be the fundamental nature of the self.

The goal of free association is not to unearth specific answers or memories, but to instigate a journey of co-discovery which can enhance the patient's integration of thought, feeling, agency, and selfhood.

It is thought to contribute to the formation of new memories, as well as possessing other functional roles.

The dentate gyrus is thought to contribute to the formation of memories and to play a role in depression.

Neurogenesis is thought to play a role in the formation of new memories.

However, near the end of the game, players will be given clues that suggest that Hurdy is Gurdy, who thought his name was Gurdy after his memories were stolen by Raem.

This unnatural connection had left them hollow, tormented, and possessed of alien emotions and thought processes, as these artifacts do not provide the buffer against the memories of their suffering in the Abyss.

Associative prosopagnosia is thought to be an impairment to the links between early face perception processes and the semantic information we hold about people in our memories.

While Ivanova herself does not appear, Cole uses some of her hair that was on his uniform and an imprint of her thought patterns and memories.

His concern is shared by Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, who stated that “ instantaneous devices ” and the abundance of information people are exposed to through e-mail and other technology-based sources could be having an impact on the thought process, obstructing deep thinking, understanding, impedes the formation of memories and makes learning more difficult.

CREB proteins in neurons are thought to be involved in the formation of long-term memories ; this has been shown in the marine snail Aplysia, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, in rats and in mice ( see CREB in Molecular and Cellular Cognition ).

The Plains of Heaven is thought by some to reflect his memories of the Allendale of his youth.

Consultant physician Marcus de Laune Faunce wrote: " Towards the end of 1990 many Canberra citizens were either bewildered, angered or saddened as they realised that the Royal Canberra Hospital on Acton Peninsula was soon to be closed ... Its staffing structure and organisation were thought to have been planned in advance in step with population needs and the hospital was firmly and warmly placed in the memories and affections of many people ... Its beautiful, central position on the lake had been marked by Walter Burley Griffin on his original plan.

In the current theory, the hippocampus is thought as the top level of the cortical hierarchy ; it is specialized to retain memories of events that propagate all the way to the top.

The closing thought is Vix's recount of her " summer sister " and the memories they will always share, and wishing that things could have ended differently.

It is now thought more likely that he encountered legionnaires during his extensive travels in Algeria and Morocco, and skillfully blended their stories with his own memories of a short spell as a cavalry trooper in England.

For over 40 years she has been defining fundamental issues of how information is selected and integrated to form meaningful objects and memories that guide human thought and action.

The depth-of-processing effect is the improvement in subsequent recall of an object about which a person has given thought to its meaning or shape. Simply put: To create explicit memories, you have to do something with your experiences: think about them, talk about them, write them down, study them, etc.