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Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He adds: "Testing itself when you get the correct answers appears to produce a more elaborative memory trace connected with your prior knowledge, so you're building on what you know".

From BBC • May 18, 2013

It turns out that children of highly elaborative mothers tend to have earlier and richer memories.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2012

And when parents scaffold their children’s stories—when they essentially tell the stories for their children, as a highly elaborative parent of a very young child would—they are reinforcing those same connections.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2012

But hell itself would not be complete without the button-bore—the man or woman who holds you by a theory, and detains you amid life's intensity to attend the slow circlings of an elaborative brain.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward