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| Word | Definition |
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| cryptamnesianoun | Alternative form of cryptomnesia. [(chiefly psychology, uncountable) The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; (countable) an instance of this. Contrast cryptaesthesia.] |
| pseudoreminiscencenoun | (psychology) A false memory. |
| mnemenoun | Persisting effect of memory of past events. |
| retrocognitionnoun | (parapsychology) extrasensory knowledge of past events. |
| brain freezenoun | (informal) A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache. |
| mandela effectnoun | The phenomenon of a large number of persons independently sharing the same false memory. |
| flashbacknoun | (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs. |
| baader-meinhof phenomenonnoun | (psychology) A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency. |
| postcognitionnoun | (parapsychology) retrocognition |
| selective memorynoun | (psychology) An ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient, embarrassing, or disadvantageous. |
| reminiscencenoun | An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often fondly. |
| paramnesianoun | An inability to distinguish between real memories and dreams or fantasies |
| irreminiscencenoun | (medicine) The inability to mentally recall or “revisualize” images. |
| recollectionnoun | The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory. |
| déjà vunoun | The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case. |
| memorynoun | (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will. |
| constructive memorynoun | An apparent memory of an event that did not actually happen, that is unconsciously constructed in order to fill a gap. |
| confabulationnoun | A casual conversation; a chat. |
| ecphorianoun | A stage in memory retrieval in which a latent engram is activated |
| memory journeynoun | An imaginary journey used as a mnemonic device to recall faces, digits, etc. by the order in which they are encountered during travel. |
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