We’re sometimes unable to recognise people we’ve met, let alone recall their name. Most people take this as a sign that they have a bad memory. But this is probably not the case. Names can be a particularly hard thing to remember. For one thing, they are abstract and unconnected to the person; while Mr. Baker used to be a baker, today his name is not related to his profession. For another, we usually hear names only once when a person is introduced to us, and often we don’t even hear the name properly, but smile and shake hands anyway. Something commonplace, like a name, which is only encountered once, is unlikely to be stored as a strong memory. Finally, the worst possible scenario is being introduced to a large group of people at once. Any more than seven people at the same time and your short-term memory will be overloaded. Then there’s almost no chance you’ll remember them.
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Any more than seven people at the same time and your short-term memory will be overloaded.
= (If you are introduced to) any more than seven people at the same time, your short-term memory will be overloaded
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Yes. Connecting clauses by "and" is sometimes used informally as an alternate way of expressing a condition and its consequence. You don't always have to use a conditional structure with "if".
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