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memory trace

noun

Psychology.


memory trace

noun

  1. psychol the hypothetical structural alteration in brain cells following learning See also engram
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of memory trace1

First recorded in 1920–25
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"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."

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Rather the very notion of environment is fully humanized through the dynamics of the memory traces that humans leave behind to be processed by shamans.

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In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections.

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That’s only a partial list, and these “offices” persist, at least as latent possibilities and memory traces, at every performance of “Hamilton” or “Our Town.”

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To psychologists, this is called “retrieval practice” and it is one of the most reliable ways of building stronger memory traces.

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