When you meet a witness to your distant past, your memory tends to improve.

This is another area where human memory tends to be selective in the absence of such records.

Perhaps that is why my memory tends to associate priests and chickens, no offense intended toward either.

"When people get to that age," he said, "recent memory isn't as good, but remote memories tend to become even more vivid."

Therefore, working memory tends to be cluttered with irrelevant contents that reduce the effective capacity for relevant content.

Airline industry analysts say the collective memory of passengers tends to be short.

Our emotions and our memories tend to be suppressed, although never forgotten.

"The most likely explanation is that with dementia, the long-term memory tends to stay around longer than the short-term memory."

Her own memories of home tend to be dreamy and fairy-tale-like.

"Most memories, like those of the old neighborhood, tend to be sweet," he said, "because we forget the bad parts."