{"id":1424,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/trying-to-remember-something-can-block-the-memory\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:52","slug":"trying-to-remember-something-can-block-the-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/trying-to-remember-something-can-block-the-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to remember something can block the memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-02 13:35:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Trying to remember something can prevent the memory from being retrieved.<BR><br \/>\nA Cambridge scientist suggests that people desperately trying to recall something are better off letting their mind focus elsewhere or relaxing in order to improve their memory.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Jon Simons, the head of the Cambridge University Memory Lab, told the Rosebud podcast: &#8220;What happens when we&#8217;re really really trying to remember something, is often by that very effort block the memory from being retrieved.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And it&#8217;s only when that effort that we&#8217;ve put in gradually subsides and we maybe think about other things or we just calm down and relax that the memory is able to be retrieved.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;It is interesting how often you can puzzle and puzzle and puzzle over something and really, really try to remember it and struggle &#8211; and then the moment you think about something else, suddenly it pops into your head and that&#8217;s quite a common experience.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-02 13:35:09 Trying to remember something can prevent the memory from being retrieved. A Cambridge scientist suggests that people desperately trying to recall something are better off letting their mind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}