A closer look
Humans are statistically more likely to remember the first and last items in any given sequence, a cognitive quirk known as the serial position effect; psychologists divide this into the primacy effect, where your brain actually has time to encode early information into long-term memory, and the recency effect, where the final details are still bouncing around your short-term working memory, which perfectly explains why you forgot absolutely everything your partner asked you to buy in the middle of that tedious grocery run, serving as a fantastic, scientifically backed excuse for why you only brought home milk and toilet paper while completely ignoring the vegetables, though your spouse probably will not care about cognitive psychology when dinner is ruined
