I’m talking about those things that you normally know but may forget momentarily. It’s like your brain draws a blank or can’t access the info. What causes that when it happens?
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Memory kind of works like video encoding. Your brain sets ‘highlights’ as kind of points of reference and the rest is actually deleted and when you ‘remember’ stuff your brain is actually reconstructing the events by connecting the highlights it saved (someone else here called these constructed connections ‘memory strings’) and then matching information to that reconstruction.
This is why you remember your vacation so vividly but can’t even remember what the colour of the car next to you this morning. Vacation is a lot of new ‘highlightworthy’ points your brain can work with while your daily commute to work essentially has next to none so your brain saves almost nothing. It’s also how you can have ‘false memories’ if your brain uses events that logically make sense connecting highlight points but didn’t actually happen.
When you draw a blank on a name your brain looks for context in which you heard the name (matching sensory input) and then reconstruct the name from there. It’s why you are unlikely to blank on your own or your moms name cause there are PLENTY of events where the name is right at the center of some ‘highlights’ while your mates new girlfriends name only came up in some mundane introduction round far removed from a lot of highlights so it’s a lot of work to reconstruct the situation and then recall the name from that.
Memory is compliacted but fun 😉
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