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flash3 CONSTRUCTSFlashbulb memoryBROWN & KULIK · 1977Flash memoryMASUOKA · 1987FlashFAVAUDON · RADIATION ONCOLOGY

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Cognitive psychology

A vivid, confident memory of a shocking moment

In memory research a flashbulb memory is a vivid, long-lasting, and highly confident recollection of the circumstances in which one learned of a shocking, consequential event, as if a mental photograph had been taken of the moment. Brown and Kulik's 1977 Flashbulb memories named the phenomenon and proposed a special encoding mechanism; later work showed such memories feel accurate but are no more reliable than ordinary memories and drift over time. The name is an explicit metaphor from the photographic flashbulb, yet the construct is an autobiographical-memory type, not a light source. The referent is a class of emotionally charged, confidently held memory, unrelated to illumination or to a storage chip.[1]

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The vividness, confidence, and persistence of memory for a shocking event's circumstances
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Studied by confidence ratings and detail counts tracked over time against the actual accuracy of recall

Computer engineering

Non-volatile memory erased in blocks

In computer engineering flash memory is a non-volatile solid-state store that keeps data without power and is erased and rewritten in large blocks rather than one byte at a time, the technology behind memory cards, USB drives, and solid-state disks. Masuoka and colleagues' 1987 paper introduced the high-density NAND flash cell structure that made the technology practical; the name is said to come from the fast, block-wide erase resembling a camera flash. The referent is a storage device characterised by capacity, endurance, and read and write speed. It is an entirely different thing from a light pulse or a vivid memory, joined only by the word.[2]

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The capacity, endurance, and read/write speed of a non-volatile store
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Not applicable
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Specified by storage capacity, program/erase cycle endurance, retention time, and access speed

Radiation oncology

radiation delivered at ultra-high dose rates in a fraction of a second, which in mice spared normal tissue more than tumour.

In radiation oncology, flash refers to radiation delivered at ultra-high dose rates in a fraction of a second, which in mice spared normal tissue more than tumour. This meaning comes from Favaudon (2014) in Science Translational Medicine.[3]

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References

  1. Brown, R., & Kulik, J. (1977). Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5(1), 73–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(77)90018-X
  2. Masuoka, F., Momodomi, M., Iwata, Y., & Shirota, R. (1987). New ultra high density EPROM and flash EEPROM with NAND structure cell. 1987 International Electron Devices Meeting, 552–555. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.1987.191485
  3. Favaudon, V., Caplier, L., Monceau, V., Pouzoulet, F., Sayarath, M., Fouillade, C., Poupon, M., Brito, I., Hupé, P., Bourhis, J., Hall, J., Fontaine, J., & Vozenin, M. (2014). Ultrahigh dose-rate FLASH irradiation increases the differential response between normal and tumor tissue in mice. Science Translational Medicine, 6(245). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3008973

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