Sentences with phrase «gist memory»

When rituals involve the whole family and are repeated each year, a «gist memory» is formed, says Kehoe, which means someone may not be able to place a memory specifically in time or remember specific «peripheral» details.

«Rather, the person remembers the gist of that memory and it is often blended into other related, encoded gist memories,» Kehoe says.

Not exact matches

Those who «recalled» more lures were assumed to be more prone to false memories, and were found to have higher - quality neural connections, called axons, in the superior longitudinal fascicle, known to be associated with gist - based memory (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.5270 - 08.2009).

The participants were randomized into two different cognitive training groups — strategy - based gist reasoning training versus fact - based memory training.

Additionally, the gist - reasoning - trained group showed significant generalized gains to untrained areas including executive functions of working memory (i.e., holding information in mind for use — such as performing mental addition or subtraction) and inhibition (i.e., filtering out irrelevant information).

If you've gotten the gist of the passage, then rely on your memory a little bit and cover up the answers to the questions when you read them.