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9th June 2019
01:00pm BST

In fact, from the 1,700 participants, most of those who called someone by the wrong name were mums, and their mix-ups typically included all people they love. How. darn. sweet.
"Overall, the misnaming of familiar individuals is driven by the relationship between the misnamer, misnamed, and named," the study states.
To explain, the researchers claim this happens because of how the brain organises information.
Quartz explains it as the mind breaking down information and filing it into related groups before storing it away. What this means, is that this system, known as the semantic network, keeps the names of your most loved people (like all of your kids, obvs.) in the same place. And then, when you're trying to quickly grab one of these specific names, you end going through all of them.
It makes sense now, doesn't it?
Which, of course, means that the next time you find yourself rattling through a whole list of names before getting to the one you actually want to call out, you can tell your kids it's not because you have a favourite (or are bordering on Alzheimers), but because you love them all equally.
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