Why are we able to remember something we could not remember once we go to look it up?

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For example, I couldn’t remember the name of a pizza place I’ve been to a few towns over. I sat on it for about 10 minutes, for some of the time consciously thinking about and doing other things, then decided to google ‘pizza places in x town’ and as soon as I typed in ‘pizza places’ the name of the restaurant popped into my head. Why does this happen?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Have you ever looked it up before? If so, your brain was probably triggered by that memory.

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