Sentences with phrase «relational memory abilities»

So the team designed a task that tested participants» relational memory abilities.

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The children who were in better physical condition also did better on tests of relational memory - the ability to remember and integrate various types of information - than their less - fit peers.

Previous studies have shown that a part of the brain called the hippocampus is important to relational memory — the «ability to bind together various items of an event,» said Jim Monti, a University of Illinois postdoctoral research associate who led the work with psychology professor Neal Cohen, who is affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois.