The Secret Power of Forgetting
I started my last post with this question and reflected on how attention intersects with our memory. We first need attention to record an event or fact into our memory. Today, I want to focus on another aspect of this question. Assuming that we did in fact record the memory, what makes us forget it? Neuroscience has focused on the study of memory in detail over the last decades, but studies on “forgetting,” its counterpart, are a bit lagging….[READ]
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