Season 251 - Day 12 of 14

Psychology

Famously illustrated in animation by the childhood flashback experienced by the food critic Anton Ego in the Pixar film Ratatouille, this psychological phenomenon describes the sudden, vivid retrieval of autobiographical memories triggered by a distinct sensory experience.
Named after an early 20th-century French author who codified the mechanism in literature, which term is used for this specific form of involuntary memory?

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