Memory is protective, holding on to red flags so they can be waved at you later, to guide your future behavior. But forgetting is protective too.

Have you ever tried to get rid of a memory of an unpleasant experience? Our survey respondents provided many creative techniques used to eliminate such problematic recollections.

From TED, how your memory works and why forgetting is totally OK with neuroscientist Lisa Genova Of course, at times forgetting can be a sign of a bigger problem and might suggest you need to ...

A study suggests we tend to remember certain aspects of an experience such as the big picture or the general context, rather than the smaller details.

Two cognitive psychology researchers are debunking common misconceptions about human memory while sharing easy ways to recall different types of information.

Coman was first exposed to the field of collective memory as an undergraduate psychology student at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. At the same time, Professor Hirst was conducting ...

Explaining the science behind memory and memory loss—including why forgetting is a crucial property of memory, as well as strategies that help people remember better—is the subject of a new book ...

Of the various ways that memory shows its imperfections, the most prevalent by far is forgetting. We forget much of what we read, watch, think, and encounter directly in the world. (Of course, we ...

Why do we forget? Any effective memory device needs to do three things well: encode information in a storable form, retain that information faithfully and enable it to be accessed at a later point.

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