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So many people say they struggle with names, even when they’re looking directly at the person whose name they’re trying to recal
So many people say they struggle with names, even when they’re looking directly at the person whose name they’re trying to recal
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2023-02-22
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So many people say they struggle with names, even when they’re looking directly at the person whose name they’re trying to recall. Why does this happen? Why can we recognize someone’s face but not their name? We need to delve a bit deeper into how human memory works to grasp what’s really going on.
Firstly, faces are very informative. Expressions, eye contact, mouth movements, these are all fundamental ways humans communicate. Facial features also reveal a lot about a person: eye color, hair col-or, bone structure, teeth arrangement; all things that can be used to recognize a person.【B16】___________
Compared to all this, what does someone’s name have to offer? Potentially some clues as to their background or cultural origin, but in general it’s just a couple of words, a sequence of arbitrary syllables, a brief series of noises that you’re informed belong to a specific face.
As it turns out, for a random piece of conscious information to go from short-term memory to long-term memory, it usually has to be repeated and rehearsed.【B17】___________ If you meet someone and they’re the most beautiful person you’ve ever seen and you fall instantly in love, you’d be whispering the object of your affection’s name to yourself for weeks.
【B18】________________________________________
The trouble is, this approach takes time and uses mental resources. This means that something you’re thinking about can be easily overwritten or replaced by the next thing you encounter and have to process. When you first meet someone, it’s extremely rare for them to tell you their name and nothing else. You’re invariably going to be involved in a conversation about where you’re from, what you do for work, hobbies, that sort of thing.
One difference between short- and long-term memory is that they both have different overall preferences for the type of information they process. Short-term memory is largely aural, focusing on processing information in the form of words and specific sounds.【B19】______________
In contrast to this, the long-term memory also relies heavily on vision and semantic qualities (the meaning of words, rather than the sounds that form them).【B20】__________________
Overall, faces are more memorable than names because they’re more "tangible," whereas remembering someone’s name is more likely to require full recall than simple recognition.
[A] The brain has many strategies for making the most of short-term memory, and one of these is that if you are provided with a lot of details in one go, the brain’s memory systems tend to emphasize the first thing you hear and the last thing you hear.
[B] This is why you have an internal monologue, and think using sentences and language, rather than a series of images like a film. Someone’s name is an example of aural information; you hear the words, and think of it in terms of the sounds that form them.
[C] This is because your memory associates the name you hear with the person you’re interacting with, so a connection is formed in your brain between person and name.
[D] This doesn’t usually happen when you meet someone, so if you wish to learn someone’s name, the only guaranteed way to remember it is to rehearse it while it’s still in your short-term memory.
[E] So much so that the human brain has seemingly evolved several features to aid and enhance facial recognition and processing, such as pattern recognition and a general predisposition to pick out faces in random images.
[F] So a rich visual stimulus, like, say, someone’s face, is more likely to be remembered long term than some random aural stimulus, like an unfamiliar name.
[G] However, you can sometimes skip this step, particularly if the information is attached to something deeply important or stimulating, meaning an episodic memory is formed.
【B17】
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答案
G
解析
空格前指出要将任意某个信息从短期记忆变为长期记忆,通常需要不断重复这个信息。空格后说如果你见到一个很漂亮的人并且立马爱上她,就会一直念叨她的名字,也就是说这种信息是不需要通过反复接触那个人、不断重复其名字就能记住的。空格前后是两种不同的情况,推测空格处应该是这两者之间的转折过渡。G以表转折的However开头,很好地完成语义过渡;其中,this step对应空格前的it usually…rehearsed。G主要讲述能产生情景记忆的特殊情况,指出在这种情况下,人名很容易记住;空格后正是关于这种特殊情况的具体例子。综上分析,可知G与空格处的上下文在语义和逻辑上都能很好地衔接,故为本题答案。
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