{"id":70114,"date":"2019-09-24T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=70114"},"modified":"2019-09-26T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T03:09:37","slug":"you-can-get-better-at-remembering-names-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/you-can-get-better-at-remembering-names-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Get Better at Remembering Names. Here’s How."},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Dr. Antonio Rotondo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be honest. Who hasn\u2019t <\/em>forgotten\nnames at one point or another? Sometimes it can be embarrassing: You\u2019re in a\nmeeting at work making introductions when the name of the person in the cubicle\nacross from you suddenly escapes you; or, as a candidate for the dream job\nyou\u2019ve always wanted, you keep calling the chair of the search \u201cBob\u201d when it\u2019s\nreally \u201cSteve.\u201d Awkward.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering names is an art form that many of us haven\u2019t mastered.\nWith aging, that recall only gets harder. For a lot of us, learning and\nretaining new names is like attempting origami \u2026 without directions \u2026 when your\nhand is in a splint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Names\nCan Be Hard to Remember and What Helps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see these memory recall difficulties firsthand among patients\nwho come to me for neuropsychological testing of verbal and non-verbal, recall\nabilities (among other neurological skills that we test for). I might read a\nlist of words and then invite the patient to repeat the list back to me; I\nmight do this exercise a couple of times to see how the patient is retaining\nthe information. Or, I might read a story twice to a patient and ask them to\nretell the story in the same order of events in which it occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the course of these exercises, it quickly becomes clear that\ngood memory recall depends on a number of factors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n