what happens in the brain when you draw a blank on a name?

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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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Memories have physical locations, just like a picture in a folder on your PC.

If you have a name of something on the tip of your tongue then you still have it in memory but you can’t seem to find where it is stored. Also often times the longer you spend trying to find it the memories that are saved in similar locations start to keep opening like pop-ups on your screen you didn’t ask for. So sometimes you give up and it randomly pops up in your head at dinner after all the other related pop ups finally go away

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