Wednesday, October 06, 2010




Each day we meet different people...
We recall the people we met by their looks and names
But,
We tend to forget names easily
Why?

It is common to most of us and is embarassing. Usually, we can enormous details about a person whose name we forget such as the person's nationality or perhaps an occupation. The harder we try to remember, the more mysterious the name becomes.

Most people can recall precisely what they are doing when they heard the death news of their dearest ones. Most students could remember love affairs than their studies. This proves that high emotion is definite a memory aid.

We can remember one face among thousands, but it seems the process of identification works in the opposite. Example, shows the face of a well known person, say, Albert Einstein. The first response might be "He is a great scientist" or "That man is a genius". If we could recall it, the name comes next.

The brain stores information about names in separate department. To unlock that, we have to go through the others. People suffering from brain damage sometimes lose particular functions. A patient was able to divide a pile of photographs into groups of famous and unfamous people but he had the greatest challenge in naming any of them.

Note : Try to look for your school class photos. You could easily remember your classmates' personalities but not the names.

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