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A group of 50-year-old adults is asked to think about their high school classmates. Although they have difficulty recalling the classmates, when presented with yearbooks they can recognize about _____ percent of their pictures and names.

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90 percent

Step-by-step explanation:

Visual representation in our brain is excellent because of the number of neurons that are devoted to visual processing. It is possible for the brain to remember over 2000 pictures with a level of accuracy at 90 percent. The reasons why it was very possible for the 50 years old adults in the question to recall about 90 percent of the pictures and names is because pictures engages several representation with our knowledge of the world.

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