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Why intellectual memory surpasses relational memory

I remember every detail of books I read ten years ago but forget what my husband said to me this morning

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different types of attention and engagement create vastly different memory traces regardless of apparent importance.

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“Where Are You with Memory and retention across cultures?”

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