Quotes About Recall

Add-1 with four digits caused a larger dilation than the task of holding seven digits for immediate recall. Add-3, which is much more difficult

Facts that we know do not always come to mind when we need them. People

As you can experience, the request to retrieve and say aloud your phone number or your spouse's birthday also requires a brief but significant effort, because the entire string must be held in memory as a response is organized.

For example, people: believe that they use their bicycles less often after recalling many rather than few instances are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

the Passat and provide perimeter security, with what, he did not know. Alistair Hughes, MI6's Vienna Head of Station, had expressly forbidden him to carry a weapon. Keller had a well-deserved reputation for violence; Hughes, for caution. He had a nice life in Vienna—a productive network, long lunches, decent relations with the local service. The last thing he wanted was a problem that would result in him being recalled to a desk at Vauxhall Cross. Just then

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

They had to go back to Gally.

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

Women and elephants never forget.

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down.

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.

But afterwards you went on remembering.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

I have a photographic memory.

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

Researchers say that sketching helps extend the memory. That these throwaway scribblings "reduce the burden we experience" as we're trying to remember something or solve a problem.