AI tools like ChatGPT can now remember everything about us. But is a perfect digital memory actually a psychological trap?

Forgetting things can be annoying. It can even be worrying. What was that colleague’s name? What time is the appointment tomorrow? Was that vendor offering us 25 percent off 200 products, or 20 ...

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 ...

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...

“Why drag about this corpse of your memory,” Emerson offered in “Self-Reliance.” It was an invitation to let go of past beliefs and things once said aloud — indeed, former versions of ourselves — for ...

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 outline ...

If you’ve been in sales readiness or corporate learning for any significant time, you’re no doubt familiar with the “forgetting curve.” The forgetting curve emphasizes that without immediate and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically ...

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 ...

In the quest to fend off forgetfulness, some people build a palace of memory. It’s a method for memorizing invented in ancient times by (legend has it) the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos, more recently ...