The memory challenge: What did you do last Sunday?
KEVIN KRENECK / Tribune Media Services
By MOSHE BAR
Published: Friday, June 3, 2011 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 9:38 a.m.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110603/WIRE/110609872/1042?p=all&tc=pgall
I recently enlisted a friend to sit down with me while waiting for our boys to finish a class one Saturday, and we each tried to remember what we had done on the previous Sunday. It was an agonizing exercise that resulted in a blank. I could almost feel the cognitive path my mind was taking, and it always ended with a wall.
Conversations with our respective wives revealed that my friend had spent most of his Sunday on the phone with a computer customer service representative, while I was navigating around giant ketchup bottles at Costco. No wonder we couldn’t remember.
We tried the same spontaneous memory test again the following week, with the same troubling outcome.
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