Neuroscientists today report the first results from experimental tests designed to explore the idea that “forgetting” might not be a bad thing, and that it may represent a form of learning – and ...

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 ...

What if forgetting isn’t a failure but an essential feature of your brain’s design? For decades, we’ve been taught to fear memory lapses misplacing keys, blanking on names, or struggling to recall a ...

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With the continuing flow of time and changing circumstances, some ideas are carried forward, and some ideas are lost. Source: Paul-e/Wikimedia Commons Successfully realizing positive change, whether ...

Dr. Ranganath is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, and the author of the forthcoming book “Why We Remember: ...

A recent and compelling news story in Time Magazine reports on people going to Taylor Swift concerts and not remembering much about the concert. 1 The concert fans are then troubled by their lack of ...