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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. So she, and her ...
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U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks at a primary...
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May 15, 2017 • Bears do it, bats do it. So do dogs and...
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Jan 31, 2024 · However, pet name mix-up seems to happen only with dogs. The study suggests people are far less likely to mix a person’s name with that of a cat, chinchilla or some other pet.
Jan 17, 2017 · The cross-race effect, as psychologists call it, occurs when the aforementioned brain folder is one categorized by race. Thus, people will sometimes confuse, say, two Asian people with each other ...
May 3, 2016 · The study, which was conducted by researchers at Duke, based its findings on five surveys of over 1700 respondents. It found that name mix-ups (calling one person by another’s name) usually ...
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. You may even hear family members addressed by the name of the family dog— because he is part of the family ...
Jan 25, 2017 · Name mix-ups were most common among family members and friends. Moms and dads mix up the names of their kids along with the family dog, and friends mixed up the names of their pals. In a survey of ...
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Apr 28, 2024 · Calling your child by a sibling’s name is not a memory issue. “It’s neither due to forgetfulness nor aging. It’s more a sign of stress than of cognitive decline,” Dumas says. If you ...
