I have also encountered your situation. During the summer vacation of 2019, I went back to my hometown to run a memory summer camp. Many old high school classmates sent their children over. Some of the boys I had rarely interacted with at the time did indeed look familiar to each other, and I was stunned for a while and couldn't pronounce their names. After all, 20 years have passed!
Also, when attending a community gathering, although everyone introduces themselves, they can’t remember a few, is that right?
Human memory is composed of multiple senses such as hearing, vision, smell, etc., 70% of which is visual. But it’s more accurate to say that memories are stronger due to visually seen images, because the human brain is wired to like images, and preferably colorful ones. Compared with textual information such as a person's name, the impression left by a person's face, appearance, and clothing is indelible, so it is easy to cause old classmates and old friends who have not seen each other for many years to look familiar but have trouble remembering their names.
When our professional memory players participate in the competition, there is a project of memorizing someone's avatar. When I am recalling and answering the questions, I often look at the familiar portrait but can't remember the name. Hahahaha, but after deliberate training, you can recall them all. The current world record is more than 300. My personal best result is more than 130 in 15 minutes, which is 115.
Let me tell you a little about the memory method, which is to find an obvious feature in the head, and then associate it with the name to create an association.
For example, let’s say this enchanting cook is named Li Li. The apron she is wearing looks like a pear because of its special posture, so we can pronounce it as "pear". Take a look at this picture of a pear. Does it look similar? Even the spots on the skin of the pear correspond to the little flowers on the cook's apron!
The most difficult thing to distinguish is probably the ID photo. The background, expression, and clothing seem to be the same, and even the postures are uniform, so we need to look for details.
Like our ID photo of the little girl with a round head, let’s say her name is Zhang Bingbing, or maybe her name is Wang Yingying. I wonder how everyone remembers it?
If her name is Zhang Bingbing, we will introduce familiarity to the new. We all know Fan Bingbing. Look at the ball on the head of this girl, does it look like a big black rice ball? So we can imagine that the girl opened her mouth to eat Fan Bingbing's big rice ball, or she wanted to open her mouth to eat the ice-cold rice ball.
If her name was Wang Yingying, it would be easy. Recently, Lan Yingying came out on top in "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves". I like her very much, so naturally I pulled her over to use her. Look at the background, blue and blue, and the girl's bright smile is exactly the same as Lan Yingying's confident and confident beauty.
For ordinary people, there is no need to undergo such competitive memory training (when we compete in competitive memory competitions, we remember the names of foreigners), but mastering It is definitely more than enough to deal with prosopagnosia and facial amnesia in life.
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