Neuro people: I don't know how to ask this question, but maybe you'll figure it out. Is there a word for when you're trying to remember, say, a sequence of numbers and you can't fit repeat the whole thing, but you can get most of it then...idk, recall the rest by other means?
E.g. I can recite the first five or six but then recall the image of the final three?
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So there’s things called the primacy effect (remembering first few items) and recency effect (last few) that have been studied quite a bit. Is that what you mean?
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Not a neuro person, but there's a lot of research on information chunking. For example, if I gave you a string of 50 letters, it'd be though to remember them. But if those 50 letters formed words in a sentence, the task immediately becomes much simpler.
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