How to Use long-term memory in a Sentence

long-term memory

noun
  • Will this crystallized moment be sent down the pipe to long-term memory?
    Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • Your long-term memory gets clogged up by the real-time lack of certainty.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This helps push that knowledge into short and long-term memory.
    Rachel Montañez, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The brain stores long-term memories by linking neurons.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Short-term memories last seconds to hours, while long-term memories last for years.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019
  • That day at the theater, on the other hand, will likely be coded by their hippocampus as a long-term memory.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The hippocampus is then cleared to gather more the next day, while the neocortex decides what to transfer to long-term memory and what to discard.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The creature also displays both short-term and long-term memory and recall over periods of weeks and even months.
    C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • There’s the slower build of the hormonal activation of emotion, and short- and long-term memory.
    New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • My short-term memory is much better than my long-term memory.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The team identified memory cells in the neocortex — the brain’s outer layers, which house long-term memories — within just a day of the shock.
    Jessica McDonald, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Their work concerned the brain changes involved in the transformation of short-term memories to long-term memories.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
  • This would put their long-term memory skills on par with other wildlife memory masters like monkeys and crows.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
  • They have been shown to be involved in long-term memory in snails, mice and rats, through their ability to influence chemical tags on DNA.
    Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Once set, the states remain stable, allowing it to provide long-term memory storage even in the absence of power.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Binge or heavy drinking can lead to many health issues, including high blood pressure, stroke, and long-term memory problems.
    Cheyenne Buckingham, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • When the scientists stimulated those cells with light, the critters cowered in fear, showing that the long-term memories were already there.
    Jessica McDonald, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Researchers expected dolphins to have long-term memory, but perhaps not that long-term.
    Karen Ravn, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2013
  • Music has been shown to trigger the hippocampus, the part of your brain associated with long-term memory storage.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
  • In case this crazy year has triggered some long-term memory loss, this collection of players represent some of the best at their positions in both the historical and present sense.
    Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • By rehearsing these tired narratives, the movies work to entrench an understanding that medicine, too, has no long-term memory, that hubris is hard-wired and doomed to repeat itself.
    Nitin K. Ahuja, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • That particular shot may not register in the long-term memory banks, but Kaminsky finished the game with 28 points, 11 rebounds and a permanent place in Badgers lore.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This is also when long-term memory becomes more compromised, so a person with this level of Alzheimer’s may begin to forget who their loved ones are or get them confused with each other.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Researchers are intrigued by these results because long-term memory has benefits and drawbacks for wildlife.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
  • The field has long debated whether short- and long-term memory storage are distinct phenomenon.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022
  • That is in line with other experiments that have suggested that blocking the formation of such tags blocks the formation of long-term memory in snails and some rodents, said Dr. Glanzman.
    Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • The study also found that the intervention was capable of boosting both working memory and long-term memory.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • One of the more enticing questions is how, specifically, swimming enhances short- and long-term memory.
    Seena Mathew, Quartz, 31 July 2021
  • The cerebral cortex, which in humans is responsible for higher brain functions such as speech, perception, long-term memory and judgment, is the outer layer of the brain.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 2 July 2019
  • The amygdala, however, is responsible for emotion and long-term memory.
    Yec, Forbes, 19 May 2022

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