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- According to cognitive scientist Samantha Deffler, mixing up names is “a normal cognitive glitch,” and actually has nothing to do with having a bad memory or aging. Instead, Deffler says that our brain organizes names into special folders, and the names we scramble are likely to belong to the same category (i.e. friends, family, colleagues, etc).
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Jan 16, 2017 · A lot of people mix up children's names or friends' names, but Deffler is a cognitive scientist at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla., and she wanted to find out why it happens.
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People in the same relationship category can end up being called by each other's names— a kind of filing error, not a cognitive disorder. In an especially tight category, like family members, scrambling names is probably more common.
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In addition to misnaming occurring based on relationship categories, researchers also found that phonetic similarities play a role in getting names mixed up. For example, names that begin or end with similar sounds (e.g. Michael and Mitchell) are more likely to be mixed up with one another.
