It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names. It's like having special folders for family names and friends names stored in the brain. When people used the wrong name, overwhelmingly the name that was used was in the same category, Deffler says. It was in the same folder.


mike:

Funny about mothers and dogs. My mother once called for me, going through a rapid string of names: "Bill, Lorna, Judi, Heather, Ginger, Mike!"

And I said "Ginger? You seriously called the dog's name before mine?"


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