Definition of hypermnesia in English:
hypermnesia
nounˌhʌɪpəmˈniːzɪəˌhīpərmˈnēZHə
mass nounUnusual power or enhancement of memory, typically under abnormal conditions such as trauma, hypnosis, or narcosis.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such hypermnesia will be considered/suggested a normal ability, such as reading and writing are today.
- We would expect that an effect of hypermnesia would be demonstrated, despite Krizan and Marmolejo's 2001 conclusions to the opposite effect.
- The question of hypnotic hypermnesia in therapy is still open.
- The research so far has been focusing on visual stimuli and the depth of the processing as key factors of the development of hypermnesia.
- Under the hypermnesia explanation, the design of the present study merely promotes the increasingly accurate recall of genuinely experienced events.
- In addition, high- and low-imagery words produced equivalent hypermnesia and emergent generation effects.
- By the way, a simple explanation of hypermnesia is that at the end of the first 10-minute recall period, the rate of recall is quite low, but it isn't zero.
- The purpose of this study is to find out whether repeated recall will produce hypermnesia.
- Analyses for hypermnesia over the interviews found only that children still reported more corrects than errors.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from hyper- + Greek mnēsia 'memory'.