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Perry’s ‘brain freeze,’ by another name, is common ‘retrieval failure’

Perry’s ‘brain freeze,’ by another name, is common ‘retrieval failure’

It was the Hoover Dam of mental blocks. Pundits referred to it as a “brain freeze” or a “gaffe.” In Internet parlance, it was an “epic FAIL.” But to neuroscientists, what happened to Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday night looked like something very ordinary, exacerbated by stress: a “retrieval failure.”

Senh: It happens to me all the time, so I can sympathize with Rick Perry. It also probably means I have no business in politics.

 

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