Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意選取的) lists of words.

In her study, participants were randomly ( ' , 隨機地) assigned to two groups.

Some scientistsmaintain that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (無規律的) variation—some years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm yearsrecently—but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.

The study, published online in April in the journal Memory and Cognition, found that the "wrong" name is not random but is invariably fished out from the same relationship pond: children, siblings, friends.

A car that takes off from London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen," says Prof.

We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.