If you didn't forget things, you'd be in for a world of trouble. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Forgetting is part of our daily ...

Have you ever walked into a room and then wondered why you went there? If you’ve experienced this phenomenon, you’ve had a prospective memory lapse. Memory usually means remembering things that have ...

Much geographical attention is paid to issues of memory and its relationship to place. Yet, there has been less disciplinary interrogation of what goes on when one forgets. This paper argues that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The night after my high school graduation, most of my classmates hit the bars to get drunk. Rather than join them, I picked a tamer celebration, assuming that I would be less likely to get into ...

Nutritionist Pooja Makhija explains that your brain prioritises meaning over labels, therefore, forgetting names is not a memory issue ...

Everyone forgets something sometime so I don't believe forgetting where I left my glasses or not remembering an item I wanted at the store has anything to do with age. My grandchildren forget more ...

Have you bought someone a smartphone, drone or digital camera for Christmas? I can remember getting Christmas electrical gifts when I was young and, invariably, the kind person who sent me the present ...