The phenomenon of not being able to remember words during a conversation, 'What is that thing ...?' May be transmitted to others.

Many people have had a frustrating feeling when they were having a conversation because they couldn't remember the names of people and things and said, 'What did you say ... I'm out to my throat!' This phenomenon of 'I can't remember words at once' is likely to occur within the group and can be transmitted to others, explains Professor Luc Rousseau, a psychology researcher at Lorenshan University in Canada.

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The phenomenon of 'I can't remember the words or names I'm trying to remember, even though they're in my throat,' is called ' lethologica ' in psychology. This lethologica is a type of mild memory disorder, and is said to be a manifestation of an error when reading memory from the brain.

Lethologica is said to be for estimating the possibility that the word you want to remember is in your memory, and you are trying to find a specific word from your memory triggered by various clues. That's right. In fact, a study published in 1966 found that when suffering from lethologica, people are more likely to remember the initials, syllables, and similar words of the word.

According to a survey of 48 students at Laurenshan University by Professor Rousseau, 96% of the students who participated in the survey said they had encountered lethologica while talking to someone within the past six months. matter. Therefore, a research team led by Professor Rousseau conducted an experiment that presented participants with 80 common sense problems.

In this experiment, common sense questions were first asked to the participants in a group of four. Participants answered on the answer sheet given to them in one of three patterns: 'The answer is XX', 'I don't know', and 'Lethologica is occurring (I understand, but I can't remember the answer)'. The research team then asked one participant, not the group, a common-sense question in the same way.

As a result of the experiment, it was found that the number of times the participants experienced the lethologica phenomenon was 6 times per person on average in the group of 4 people, while it was only 2 times on average in the case of only 1 person. .. From this, Professor Rousseau points out that the lethologica phenomenon is more likely to occur when sharing information with others than when alone.

Furthermore, according to Professor Rousseau, in the experiment, multiple group members experienced the lethologica phenomenon in response to the same question 'when the group members were having a conversation.' From this, Professor Rousseau argues that 'lethologica may be socially contagious.'

For example, when talking in a group, if one person causes a lethologica phenomenon and starts guessing, 'That's that ... what?', It's as if the lethologica phenomenon is transmitted to other people. It can be a situation. Regarding the possibility that one person's lethologica can be transmitted to another person, Professor Rousseau said, 'The total amount of data stored in a group is larger than that in one person. It's easier to remember the word you're looking for. It's easier to reach the word you want to remember in a group than when you're alone, and at the same time, that guess may induce lethologica in the same group members. I don't. '