Perry's brain freeze

On Wednesday Perry had an epic brain freeze during a debate. He embarrassingly stood there dumbfounded as he searched his brain from name of the department of energy which he has been talking about that should be eliminated. His expression told it all as he stood there with a look of pain as he stumbled and started over and attempted to change the subject. He just couldn’t find the words that he was looking for.
Nobody knows how this will effect his campaign but luckily he is not the only one to have this happen to him. More embarrassing then that Christina Aguilera forgot the words to the national anthem as she sang in front of thousands and thousands for the super bowl. And what about chief justice John G. Roberts junior who misplaced a word during his oath at the swearing-in ceremony for President Barack Obama. This embarrassing mistake forced to redo the oath the next day.
It is only to remind us that this is natural for everyone and that these things happen to all of us everyday. It doesn’t have to be forgetting a word or a idea in front of an audience but the simplest task of forgetting what you walked into a room for. It is more likely to happen when we obtain new information or never really used, and we are forced to depend on our brain to try and remember what it is were searching for. But when there is something significantly important to us such as a childbirth or a birthday we have no problem remembering every single detail.
A good comparison to our memory and what it remembers is that of a library card in a library. When we remember things well its as if our medial temporal acts like a library card catalog system, which will point him to the right locations in the brain where the memory is stored. But when there is a brain freeze or unable to remember something its as if the card looked in the wrong place or as if we have the wrong card.
Perry could have been interrupted after he glanced at Ron Paul and got distracted which probably set his mind on a different track. This also may have set him off into his next point to quickly without yet finishing the question on hand. More simply he could have just had a lot of stress placed on him and his mind is to jumbled up with worries and expectations. Our memory is filled with way to many things and it is easy to forget some of the information that we try to pack into it. Its almost as if it’s a parking lot with hundreds of cars and forgetting where it was you parked.
According to Tom Eichele, a neurophysiologist and adjunct professor of biological and medical psychology, points out that are brain gets lazy sometimes because it thinks it knows what’s going to happen next. There should really be no reason why Perry should have any negative feedback due to this unfortunate experience. It just reminds us that they are not robots, they are human as well and they can have slip ups every now and then just as I’m sure each and every one of us have experienced ourselves.