People mix up the names of family, friends or even pets, because these names are usually stored in the same category in the brain. This is a cognitive glitch that is not related to bad memory or aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names, with family pets filed with other family members.

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People mix up the names of family, friends or even pets, because these names are usually stored in the same category in the brain. This is a cognitive glitch that is not related to bad memory or aging, but rather to how the brain categorizes names, with family pets filed with other family members.