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The people who remember every song lyric from their teenage years but can’t remember what they did last Tuesday aren’t losing their memory, they’re revealing which decade of their life their brain decided was worth encoding in the highest resolution
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The brain does not remember the teenage years because they were long ago.
Psychologists have a name for the pattern: the reminiscence bump.
It is that the teenage brain was, at the time, running at a resolution the adult brain simply does not use anymore.
Why the pattern intensifies with ageThe reminiscence bump does not really appear until midlife.
The reminiscence bump is a fact about encoding, not about worth.