Shown two everyday objects and asked which one they had seen first, 50 adults pointed to the wrong object 78 percent of the time, and the wrong object was always the one they had seen most often

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A vivid memory should feel recent. Six online experiments found the reverse for anything repeated: the objects people had seen over and over were the ones they placed deepest in the past. The post Shown two everyday objects and asked which one they had seen first, 50 adults pointed to the wrong object 78 percent of the time, and the wrong object was always the one they had seen most often appeared first on Space Daily .