Sentences with phrase «episodic events of»

An important ecological effect on the maintenance of Aristeus antennatus populations in the northwestern Mediterranean has been linked to the episodic events of dense water cascading on the Gulf of Lions [260].

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Our aging brains similarly show wear in the realm of episodic memory, the part of brain function that handles recollections of recent events, like the last few chapters of the book you put down yesterday, or what you had for breakfast.

Just as an artist might begin with a certain form or a snatch of musical ideas or a line of dialogue, so the historical event begins with an array of episodic fragments.

It deals with the significance of events in such a sequence as flat, episodic reportage can not serve.

The fabric of a Masters tournament, particularly one as eventful as last week's, can be formed by a sequence of events as episodic as the pageant on an Aubusson tapestry.

A 2014 EEG study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that NDE memories are stored as episodic memories — recollections of events that you yourself participated in, like recalling where you were when the 9/11 attacks happened, rather than simply remembering the fact that the attacks happened.

These observations indicate that episodic slow slip events are probably occurring at the shallow plate boundary in the vicinity of the Nankai Trough.

During slow - wave sleep, the hippocampus — a region of the brain that stores recent, episodic memories about discrete events — replays its files for the neocortex, home to more permanent memories.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»

Cross-talk between the hemispheres may be important for remembering specific events, called episodic memory, so psychologists Stephen Christman and Ruth Propper of the University of Toledo, Ohio, reasoned that lefties and righties might differ in episodic memory skills.

More than a century later, the textbook description of episodic memory (conscious knowledge of an event) is a more sophisticated version of that same basic idea.

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory — the ability to recall past events — than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing evidence of a link between memory and overeating.

The more doctors probed her so - called episodic memory — the sequential recollection of personal events from the past — the more upset she became.

One was to look at what emotion does with episodic memories — our ability to consciously recollect the events of our lives, what most people call «memory.»

The hippocampus — two sea horse — shaped neuronal clusters framing the midbrain — is the well - characterized seat of episodic memory that records times, places and events.

Other types of memory such as learning physical skills were unaffected, suggesting the hippocampus specifically handles the recall of events — known as «episodic» memories.

One crucial aspect of episodic memory is pattern separation, the ability to retrieve the specifics of past events without generalizing to similar or partially overlapping events (Yassa and Stark, 2011).

One important aspect of episodic memory is the ability to remember the order in which unique sequences of events occurred.

Examining the characteristics of episodic memory using event - related potentials in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Anderson, J.B. and Thomas, M.A., 1991, Marine ice sheet decoupling as a mechanism for rapid, episodic sea - level change: the record of such events and their influence on sedimentation: Sedimentary Geology, v. 70, p. 87 - 104.

By contrast, «episodic memory» refers to the encoding of autobiographical information relating to a specific event that is located in time.

Those who answered yes to both questions were significantly more likely to demonstrate an impairment in episodic memory (the memory of specific event) on follow up testing eight years later than those who did not express a concern about their memory.

The 4 mental states comprised: An unconstrained period of mind wandering; a ruminative mental state self - induced by recalling a time of personal disappointment; a euphoric mental state self - induced by recalling what brings the subject joy; and a sequential episodic recollection of the events of the day.

The medial temporal lobe is considered the fundamental substrate of episodic memory, mediating the acquisition of events unfolding with particular spatial and temporal relationships (what, where, and when).

Long periods of starvation were normal, whether due to seasonal changes or due to episodic weather events.

The movie masterfully crystallizes the unruly, episodic nature of memories, re-creating the way certain small things stay with us while other, much larger events recede into a haze of cigarette smoke.

There's no political meat in its satire of the British government or any real story in the episodic succession of events, and its portrait of the (pop) culture of the time is really just a movie fantasy.

Perhaps that explains the episodic flow of the action, with big events followed by weepy scenes where Craven imagines he's seeing his daughter, still a little girl.

It is ultimately little more than an episodic patchwork of over-burdened vignettes that among them share only a desire to manufacture unearned pathos and manipulate events towards the most expedient solution.

He's a very passive character, completely at the mercy of his life's events — a point further reinforced by the film's rambling, episodic nature.

For all its character - driven touches, the majority of the movie plays out too much like a typical biopic with episodic scenes highlighting the major events of the subject's life and occasionally touching upon glimpses into the man's psyche.

This includes: ongoing creative and strategic advice from Sundance staff and advisors; targeted introductions to agents, managers, attorneys, writers and executives; inclusion in the Sundance Institute alumni community; invitations to Sundance - hosted events throughout the year; opportunities to observe the writers rooms of shows currently in production; and ongoing mentorship with episodic writers, directors and producers.

In this way the episodic memory of the students is tagged with a memorable event which can improve their recall, but note, not necessarily their conceptual understanding (Graham, Papa & Brooks, 1992).

Tales From The Borderlands, Telltale's latest episodic series set after the events of Borderlands 2, has been given its first trailer.

Experience the horror event of the season with this brand new episodic serial thriller!

It's a bizarre turn of events, especially as the episodic model isn't usually a fit for RPGs.

Ubisoft has also announced the Assassin's Creed III Season Pass, featuring «The Tyranny of King Washington,» an all - new single - player campaign told through three episodic content packs that lets gamers experience an alternate history of the events following the American Revolution.

The Peterpalooza event in Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is a great example of how TinyCo is trying to raise the bar in episodic mobile game content.

Their work reveals that history, and the history of photography in particular, is not merely an episodic succession of events, innovations, and movements, but rather a far more complex layering of recordings, encounters, and perspectives through and across time.

In addition to the gallery display, a central component of the exhibition is an expansive series of performances and events, including a number of episodic, one - time demonstrations of additional rarely seen works overseen and led by the Calder Foundation, as well as concerts, screenings, and special programs.

The exhibition will feature an expansive series of performances and events, including a number of episodic, one - time demonstrations of rarely seen works, as well as new commissions, which will bring contemporary artists into dialogue with Calder's innovations and illuminate the many ways in which his art continues to challenge and inform new generations.Info: Curators: Jay Sanders and Greta Hartenstein, Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, Duration: 9/6-23 / 10/17, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed - Thu & Sun 10:30 - 18:00, Fri - Sat 10:30 - 22:00, http://whitney.org

In collaboration with the Calder Foundation, the exhibition will feature an expansive series of performances and events, including a number of episodic, one - time demonstrations of rarely seen works, as well as new commissions, which will bring contemporary artists into dialogue with Calder's innovations and illuminate the many ways in which his art continues to challenge and inform new generations.

But in imagery we've obtained for the latter part of the summer, it's also clear that episodic storm events can do a lot of damage, as well.

Limited information is available, but the effects of these episodic events on the deep Mediterranean Sea appear relevant (Cap de Creus Canyon, Western Mediterranean)[15], [260].

We find that episodic subduction events with intervals of 500 to 700 Myr can transport only 15 — 25 % of the radiogenic heat produced within the planet.

However, the limited knowledge of the RF associated with prior episodic, explosive events indicates a low level of scientific understanding (Section 2.9, Table 2.11).

Aerosols from such episodic volcanic events exert a transitory negative RF; however, there is limited knowledge of the RF associated with eruptions prior to Mt. Pinatubo.

Finally, it should be noted that more general knowledge of a person's life is considered to be less prone to the inaccuracies known to be associated with memories for one - off, unique, episodic events (3.26, 3.27 & 3.28).

Another type of memory that humans and some animals possess is episodic memory — the ability to recall what, where, and when pasts events occurred.