I can remember and identify every single Pokemon upwards to around about Generation 7, where I start to falter a little bit with the various ultra-beasts, but I can barely remember what happened last week, so yeah, I must have this small portion of my brain dedicated to this one specific thing.
Same, but up to 3rd gen
This probably derives from a prehistoric ability to identify and remember specific types of predators and adapt to them, right?
I know everything up until generation 4. I'm not sure why I can't remember many from generations 5-7, since I've played through all of them. Maybe it's because I'm older and can't dedicate the time to learning the ins and outs of each Pokemon.
After gen 4 my memory draws a blank, maybe its because they started stepping on their own toes or because they have gotten to ridiculous stuff but the first 4 gens of games are pretty identifiable
I only know Gen 1, and I'm not even a genwunner.
Remember when you were 10 and you asked yourself why you can remember the name of 400 pokemon, their cries, location and evolution levels but not the name of 90 countries and their respective shapes to mark them in the geography tests?
Probably because you have interest in them, and due to that you're more likely to retain that information.
I really only know gen 1, as I never got a GBA or any other system until I reached adulthood. However when it comes to guns I can tell you just about everything from the 1900's onward.
Names are easy to remember and it is a social trait to label names to a face.
The anime series also worked in that. Season 1 had that music with the names repeated almost daily.
it is only natural to remember the names and faces of all your children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQumd_o0Gk
Reminded me of this comic
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/112373/dd4d0d27-e513-4719-a21e-4a53902947c2/6a00d83452909469e200e54f4581068833-800wi.gif
I feel like the only person who fell out of the loop after gen 2. Maybe I'm just old
You're not, I'm there with you. I grew up with Gen 1 and 2, and gen 3 I had very little exposure to because by the time it came I was already all Pokemon'd out and playing different things.
Anything you are interested in is going to be extremely easy to remember compared to something you're not interested in.
All information stored in the brains of people that come from the same culture and had a relatively normal developmental process is going to be stored in roughly the same place due to the ways our brains categorize information with schemas.
In the Anthropology book "The Secret of Our Success" there's a human brain region discussed which is dedicated to categorizing specific species of animals. Apparantly, in humans who have been exposed to only humans and not nature, it atrophies, and many urbanites have this malfunctioning brain region; it causes people to anthropomorphize animals and lack specific identification of species (e.g, saying bird instead of falcon, oversimplifying to category.) In hunter-gatherer societies it's second nature to categorize by species.
In regards to this, since I've seen a bunch of people bring it up, it's probably a pair of two different reasons that cause this:
1) Our brains presumably parse Pokemon names just like they do parts of our native tongues. Ergo, just like with languages, it's easier to learn them when younger and becomes progressively more difficult with age unless you constantly practice, which is still generally less effective than a child's mind is at adopting linguistics.
2) If you can remember gen 4, then that's 493 Pokemon out of over 800 (not including individual forms). It's probably not that unnatural to normally only recall 500 different instances of a single topic.
There's a span of 14 years between Gen 1 and Gen 5, so it's likely that a lot of people that grew up with the first three gens simply were late teens-to-adults beyond gen 4.
Predators or really just any mnemonic array of objects I think. You'd probably find the same irregularities in expert birdwatchers, new york taxi drivers or memory champions. If the brain actually developed a special new region specifically for Pokemon that discovery would have massive, massive implications for neural development and/or evolution.
You know that means? It means I probably have a region of MY brain dedicated to remembering Bionicle lore, given that I still remember the names of every single character, location, mask, weapon, and so on, nearly ten years after the original theme ended.
I feel like this is being very misinterpreted. The researcher notes in the video that it seems specifically based on perspective by which the creature is viewed and how Pokemon, being primarily played on handheld devices focused at the center of the retina, creates brain activity in a specific way versus things seen at different lengths/angles. This isn't about a specific part of your brain being specifically dedicated to remembering Pokemon.
His extrapolation of how maybe we can utilize this for dyslexia or facial blindness is incredibly interesting if it ever can fruit.
I think it's more foraging related what with how many plants can kill you. Off topic but I am a die hard believer that this is why I compulsively will plug leaves and get a feel for their texture for what appears to be absolutely no reason other than 'because'
My copy of Pokemon Blue got stolen, and it was so upsetting to me that I kind of stopped doing anything Pokemon-related. I played one of the GBA games once, but haven't played anything since. I bought Moon and Ultra Sun and haven't even touched them. It seems hard to get into again.
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