explicit memory test

a memory test that elicits conscious memories of previously experienced events. Such tests (e.g., free recall, recognition method) include explicit instructions to participants to recall earlier events. Also called direct memory test. Compare implicit memory test. See also conceptual test; perceptual test.

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Golgi Type I neuron

Golgi Type I neuron

see projection neuron. [Camillo Golgi]