Analysis: What level of forgetting is actually normal? Is it OK to mix up the names of countries, as US president Joe Biden recently did? Let's look at the evidence Forgetting in our day to day lives ...

Forgetting, annoying for some and devastating to others, is an integral part of how normal memory functions. We tend to think of forgetting not as an act or process in itself but simply as what ...

The prevailing idea in neurobiology when it comes to memories has been that remembering information is king. But according to researchers from the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

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