[math-fun] What is Joerg Arndt's name?
P.S.: does anyone know anybody who recollects asking for their own name? Here is my story: Got aware that I got a name. Asked my mother what it was, but immediately forgot. Asked again, wishing to be able to recall it, but still forgot after a few minutes. Getting annoyed with myself for having forgotten. Asked again, then repeated it over and over to myself. Remembered it from there, success!
--this is quite impressive memory. "Infantile amnesia" afflicts most (all?) people preventing any event-memory before age of about 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia There are occasionally those whose claim to remember back much further, but it is tough for them to prove it if so...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2013.854806 On Jan 25, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
"Infantile amnesia" afflicts most (all?) people preventing any event-memory before age of about 3.
* Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> [Jan 25. 2014 18:14]:
P.S.: does anyone know anybody who recollects asking for their own name? Here is my story: Got aware that I got a name. Asked my mother what it was, but immediately forgot. Asked again, wishing to be able to recall it, but still forgot after a few minutes. Getting annoyed with myself for having forgotten. Asked again, then repeated it over and over to myself. Remembered it from there, success!
--this is quite impressive memory.
Not sure; my memory never was very good. That I still can remember this was most certainly caused by the profound excitement of realizing "There is a word for me!"
"Infantile amnesia" afflicts most (all?) people preventing any event-memory before age of about 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
Interesting! I have no recollection before that event which I could put in coherent sentences (hmmm, very painfully falling down stairs, comic-style, but that could have been later).
There are occasionally those whose claim to remember back much further, but it is tough for them to prove it if so...
In personal conversations people simply doubted my story (I am not going to repeat their bone-headed "reasons"). My own mother does not recollect it (even after I described as detailed as it gets, including the exact place). Btw. (thanks for asking), pronunciation in English goes by reading "Yerk" aloud ('Y', not 'J', thanks again), try to make it slightly towards "York". And, you guessed right, it is one of the variations of George. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(given_name)
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Best regards, Jörg
Perhaps this is true, but I do have a distinct memory from when I was definitely 4 years old. I was reading the alphabet letters to my mother off a chalkboard. I also have a very dim memory, likely from an earlier age, when I dreamed up the idea of lying to my mother, which at the time struck me as a very clever and useful idea.
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun- bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Warren D Smith Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:34 AM To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [math-fun] What is Joerg Arndt's name?
P.S.: does anyone know anybody who recollects asking for their own name? Here is my story: Got aware that I got a name. Asked my mother what it was, but immediately forgot. Asked again, wishing to be able to recall it, but still forgot after a few minutes. Getting annoyed with myself for having forgotten. Asked again, then repeated it over and over to myself. Remembered it from there, success!
--this is quite impressive memory. "Infantile amnesia" afflicts most (all?) people preventing any event-memory before age of about 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia There are occasionally those whose claim to remember back much further, but it is tough for them to prove it if so...
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