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 ...

“I am more forgetful these days. Is this normal for old age or am I getting dementia?“ I started my last post with this question and reflected on how attention intersects with our memory. We first ...

Aging is typically associated with declines in episodic memory, executive functions, and sleep quality. Therefore, the sleep-dependent stabilization of episodic memory is suspected to decline during ...

I meant to write this post last week, but I kept forgetting. This is no joke. I remembered and then forgot, twice, to write and publish this piece. Has this sort of thing happened to you in the past ...

Forgetting can be a blessing and a curse. Some who've experienced a traumatic event cannot seem to forget, while others seem only to forget, and all too quickly. Dilemmas like these have led ...

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 ...

We create countless memories as we live our lives but many of these we forget. Why? Counter to the general assumption that memories simply decay with time, 'forgetting' might not be a bad thing—that ...

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 ...