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Thorsheim discusses memory in Minnesota Monthly

By Tom Vogel
May 24, 2007

St. Olaf Professor of Psychology Howard Thorsheim '63 is quoted in the June issue of Minnesota Monthly in an article on memory loss. In the article, which posits that proper names are the first things to vanish during memory lapses, Thorsheim says, "The longer we live, the more names we know, so the more likely we are to get names confused with other names." He also says that's a key reason people forget many things, "not just names."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.