Getting older goes hand in hand with forgetfulness — like not remembering the name of the new restaurant in town or misplacing your glasses. And while it can be frustrating, it isn’t instantly ...

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Try to remember your first birthday party. You can probably conjure up a vague image based on a photograph your parents showed you a thousand times. That mental image is most likely false. The truth ...

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 ...

The human brain’s ability to store and recall information remains one of science’s most intriguing areas of study. From remembering where we placed our keys to preserving precious moments with loved ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

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 ...

Neuroscience has some comforting news if you have ever forgotten someone's name shortly after meeting them: it is not a sign of memory loss, ageing, or negligence. The human brain is simply ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting (“infantile ...