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Thats funny I'm the same way. I remember faces but not names very often.



That's because noticing faces and remembering them is hard-coded into our brains and develops before birth. It's the first thing babies look for and is a fascination that stays with us all our lives. Names however are part of the speech and language centres of the brain which don't really start developing till after birth, take longer to do it (we're still learning our native language in our teens and twenties! The greatest part of language skills are learned by age 12 or so though.), and have a lower priority.

It's all to do with recognising your parents and other people who a baby is "safe" with. Part of the whole survival trait thing. (ie: survival traits are strongest - it's more important to our safety to recognise safe/unsafe people than it is to remember their names.) Best way to remember a name is when you're introduced to someone new, look at their face and use their name in conversation 4 or 5 times.

See, those 4 1/2 years doing psych at uni weren't a complete waste. Oh and I got 91% and 72% FYI.

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