memory trace

Rather the very notion of environment is fully humanized through the dynamics of the memory traces that humans leave behind to be processed by shamans.

In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections.

That’s only a partial list, and these “offices” persist, at least as latent possibilities and memory traces, at every performance of “Hamilton” or “Our Town.”

To psychologists, this is called “retrieval practice” and it is one of the most reliable ways of building stronger memory traces.

Contrary to the view that it is only useful in real time, touch leaves a memory trace that persists long after the physical sensation is gone.