Am I Normal?habits
I completely lose what I was saying mid-sentence, in a way I cannot recover from
Mid-sentence thought loss is caused by working memory displacement. The phonological loop can hold a limited amount of information. When a new thought interrupts the encoding of the sentence in progress, the original content is simply overwritten. The harder you try to recall it, the more you activate interference.
Have you ever done this?
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Related fact
The human working memory can hold an average of 7 plus or minus 2 items simultaneously — a capacity so limited that even a brief distraction during sentence construction can exhaust it entirely.