recollectionthreshold
nounUK /ˌrekəˈlekʃən ˈθreʃhəʊld/
US /ˌrekəˈlekʃən ˈθreʃhoʊld/
The point at which you start to remember something.
The smell of cookies brought her right to her recollection threshold, and suddenly she remembered her grandmother's kitchen.
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2. The minimum amount of a cue or signal needed to trigger a memory.
A single note of the song was enough to cross his recollection threshold.
3. The level of effort or time after which a person can no longer recall a detail.
After hours of studying, she passed her recollection threshold and could not remember the last chapter.
4. In psychology, the boundary between information that can and cannot be consciously retrieved.
Researchers measured the recollection threshold by testing how many words participants could recall after a delay.