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When Expertise Suddenly Becomes Inaccessible Under Pressure

I'm a surgeon and yesterday during an operation I couldn't remember a procedure I've done a thousand times and had to ask my resident to walk me through it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Even deeply ingrained competence can become unreachable when stress disrupts the neural pathways of procedural memory.

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“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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