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1. www.npr.org › sections › health-shotsWhen The Brain Scrambles Names, It's Because You Love Them - NPR

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   Jan 16, 2017 · When Samantha Deffler was young, her mother would often call her by her siblings' names — even the dog's name. "Rebecca, Jesse, Molly, Tucker, Samantha," she says. A lot of people mix up ...

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2. www.zmescience.com › mixing-people-namesWhy we mix people’s names: science says it’s because you ...

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   Jan 31, 2024 · New insights into why we forget names. Samantha Deffler, a cognitive scientist at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida., surveyed 1,700 men and women of various ages and found people often ...

3. enterprise.press › stories › 2017/02/03The cognitive science behind why we scramble names

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   Feb 3, 2017 · 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 ...

4. www.bustle.com › p › why-we-mix-up-peoples-namesHere's Why We Sometimes Mix Up People's Names - Bustle

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   Jan 17, 2017 · When we place people in the same folder, we can sometimes unintentionally switch their names. That would explain why my mother, along with many others, would confuse the names of her children ...

5. www.goodhousekeeping.com › health › a60580301Study Reveals Why We Mix Up Our Kids’ Names - Good Housekeeping

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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 ...

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6. www.wsj.com › science › wrong-names-aging-science-cWhy We Mix Up or Forget Someone’s Name - WSJ

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   Jul 30, 2024 · Her name was Emily. Names are especially hard for the brain to learn and recall, according to Samantha Deffler, a cognitive psychologist at York College of Pennsylvania. Most people recall faces ...

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   Why do people mix up names?

   • Most everyone sometimes mixes up the names of family and friends. Their findings were published in the journal Memory & Cognition. "It's a normal cognitive glitch," Deffler says. It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names.

   The Brain Scrambles Names Of People You Love : Shots - NPR

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   Why do people use the wrong name?

   • It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names. It's like having special folders for family names and friends names stored in the brain. When people used the wrong name, overwhelmingly the name that was used was in the same category, Deffler says. It was in the same folder.

   The Brain Scrambles Names Of People You Love : Shots - NPR

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   How hard is it to remember a name?

   • Her name was Emily. Names are especially hard for the brain to learn and recall, according to Samantha Deffler, a cognitive psychologist at York College of Pennsylvania. Most people recall faces more easily, and common nouns roll off the tongue more readily as well.

   Why We Mix Up or Forget Someone’s Name - WSJ

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   Is a bad name a cognitive glitch?

   • "It's a normal cognitive glitch," Deffler says. It's not related to a bad memory or to aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names. It's like having special folders for family names and friends names stored in the brain. When people used the wrong name, overwhelmingly the name that was used was in the same category, Deffler says.

   The Brain Scrambles Names Of People You Love : Shots - NPR

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   Why are names so hard to remember?

   • Biologically, names are arbitrary labels, devoid of descriptive information. This makes it hard for the brain to remember them compared to other types of memory, like events or objects. When we try to retrieve a name, our brain navigates through a network of associations – personal characteristics, shared experiences, even physical attributes.

   Why we mix people's names: science says it's because you might care

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   Why do we forget names?

   • The rise of cognitive psychology brought new understanding, suggesting that these errors were less about hidden meanings and more about how our brains categorize and retrieve information. So it seems to make sense that mistaking names is linked a cognitive decline or error. But things are not that clear. New insights into why we forget names.

   Why we mix people's names: science says it's because you might care

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8. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 79490Study Explores Why We Mix Up Some Names and Not Others

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   May 3, 2016 · Researchers aren’t sure why people were unlikely to mix up cat names, though they believe it may have to do with the fact that cats are less likely to respond to their names or come when called ...