Research suggests that such experiences are especially strong and frequent in relation to one's sense of smell.[3] The term "precious fragments" was coined by Marigold Linton, a pioneer in the study of autobiographical memory research. This is reflected, for example, in Proust’s experience of remembering, upon dunking a madeleine cookie in his tea in adulthood, a memory from childhood that occurred while eating madeleine cookies dunked in tea.[2]