The vividness differential between retention and ordinary memory can be explained by the specious present's width varying with attention, without invoking a categorically distinct experiential kind.

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Categorically distinct experiential kind(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind): A completely different type of experience or feeling, so different that it belongs in a separate category—rather than just being more or less of the same thing.
Ordinary memory(as contrasted with immediate memory): The normal way we remember things from the past—recalling events that happened minutes, hours, or longer ago.
Retention(Husserl's phenomenology of internal time-consciousness; central to Derrida's argument in Voice and Phenomenon): Husserl's term for the primary memory of the just-past that is folded back into present perception; paradoxically classified by Husserl as both a kind of perception (included in the present) and a kind of non-perception (different from the strict now).
Vividness differential(as used in memory studies): The difference in how sharp, clear, and detailed memories feel—some memories seem more 'alive' and intense than others.

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