He had to hold what he saw and felt, here and now, within a grid of potential brushstrokes or possible lines, without employing memory or imagination, for both were cheating.

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Thus, memory and imagination are inextricably linked.

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Confabulation is a wonderful psychological term to describe the confusion of imagination with memory.

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In search of new roots, imagination and memory prove essential.

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Because of the collaborative nature of Angklung music, playing promotes cooperation and mutual respect among the players, along with discipline, responsibility, concentration, development of imagination and memory, as well as artistic and musical feelings.

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Interestingly, Jefferson organized his library not alphabetically but thematically by his own scheme: Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy) and Imagination (Fine Arts).

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Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy.

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Unlike Route 66, which faded into memory and legend some 30 years ago, the Alaska of the imagination is still alive, and flourishing.

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The book instantly seizes his imagination, but just as instantly (and traumatically) the memory of his mother vanishes.

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Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.

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