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 ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

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 ...

We tend to celebrate memory, not forgetting; however, forgetting may be what keeps our minds flexible enough to adapt and learn. At Flinders University, a team of researchers has shown that the same ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...