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Reply	Chris C says: I honestly hate discussions involving terms such as subconscious or analogies too close to current computer architecture. They're metaphors which really don't answer the question.If I was to guess I'd say that the information was stored as a series of connections that at the time you wanted the answer, you couldn't connect into. Perhaps dendrites were broken, or the relevant neurons were being suppressed by other neurons for a host of possible reasons. Perhaps you recall it later on just due to some random rewiring. There might be thousands of things that one moment you could hypothetically recall and the next moment you couldn't and vice versa. Like a road network that suffers localised intermittent flooding. It would certainly explain why I can think hard about a subject, get momentarily distracted and then fail to remember half of what I had been thinking about.  (no votes) Tags: human body.
	posted on 2008-11-28 17:31:00 | Report abuse

Reply	dnsey says: I believe that the inability to recall the name results from the fact that insufficient synapses are caused to fire by the data to hand. I suspect that this data is further processed in the intervening time (connections made from recalling the face to clothing worn, circumstances when met, etc) which causes more synapses to fire, eventually resulting in the chain reaction we experience as recall of the name.  (no votes) Tags: human body.
	posted on 2008-11-29 08:19:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Suhail says: after a conscious try at remembering a detail, the subconscious mind comes into play with the body's or person's knowledge. this apparent ploy of the mind seemingly makes the situation paradoxical. its actually a more efficient function when you arent thinking about it.  (no votes) Tags: human body.
	posted on 2008-11-30 05:21:00 | Report abuse

Reply	ani nil carborundum says: We seem to be still very short of knowledge,let alone the vocabulary to discuss the brain functions that we usually call conscious and unconscious.But it would seem conscious memory is a construct of the social. verbal brain but much information from the past is accessible by a different process. Skills such as avoiding furniture in a darkened but familiar room, kicking a football or a golf ball accurately, seem actually hampered by conscious reconstruction. I use techniques to recall names, or more frequently in my personal case, to find mislaid objects, which involves duplicating part of the experience kinetically, returning to the actions surrounding the memory.  (no votes) Tags: human body.
	posted on 2008-11-30 06:47:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Justin Gaines says: When you form a memory (which is a specific neural connection), it forms along stream of other neural connections. Blocking occurs when you cannot access the memory and this stream is interrupted. Why can't you do this? The neural impulse cannot be sent from your frontal lobe to wherever in your hippocampus it resides to your speech areas, probably because an action potential cannot be created in somewhere along this stream. When you learn a name, learn many different associations to that name or associate the name in a deep manner; that way, these different associations will have different/stonger neural paths (maybe one through your amygdala/emotion center) to increase the chances that it will be strong enough to past an entire loop.  (no votes) Tags: human body.
	posted on 2008-12-01 01:34:00 | Report abuse

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