Medical Miscellany ; Why Do I Remember Names in the Middle of the Night? [Scot Region]

Daily Mail (July 14, 2009)

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IN ORDER to remember things such as a name, the brain needs a trigger -- a face, smell, voice or recollections of where you met the person.

But if that trigger isn't very strong -- for example, when you met that person you met several others at the same time -- you will struggle to get the answer. There's no point carrying on trying, says Dr Ashok Jansari, principal lecturer in psychology at the University of East London.

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Medical Miscellany ; Why Do I Remember Names in the Middle of the Night? [Scot Region]

Giving up and thinking...

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