The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Forgetting
The neuroscience of memory decay, motivated forgetting, active interference, and why the brain needs to forget in order to function, learn, and maintain sanity
1,231-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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Forgetting is not a failure of memory. It is a feature of memory, an active, regulated process by which the brain discards, suppresses, or overwrites information that is no longer relevant, no longer accurate, or no longer useful. Without forgetting, the brain would drown in irrelevant detail, unable to generalise, unable to update its models of the world, and unable to function. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of forgetting, from passive decay to active suppression, and examines why the capacity to forget may be as important as the capacity to remember.
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