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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1323" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02211-5" target="_blank"><strong>The forgotten part of memory - Nature</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Long thought to be a glitch of memory, researchers are coming to realize that the ability to forget is crucial to how the brain works.</strong></p><p></p><p>Memories make us who we are. They shape our understanding of the world and help us to predict what’s coming. For more than a century, researchers have been working to understand how memories are formed and then fixed for recall in the days, weeks or even years that follow. But those scientists might have been looking at only half the picture. To understand how we remember, we must also understand how, and why, we forget.</p><p></p><p>Until about ten years ago, most researchers thought that forgetting was a passive process in which memories, unused, decay over time like a photograph left in the sunlight. But then a handful of researchers who were investigating memory began to bump up against findings that seemed to contradict that decades-old assumption. They began to put forward the radical idea that the brain is built to forget.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1323, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02211-5'][B]The forgotten part of memory - Nature[/B][/URL] [B] Long thought to be a glitch of memory, researchers are coming to realize that the ability to forget is crucial to how the brain works.[/B] Memories make us who we are. They shape our understanding of the world and help us to predict what’s coming. For more than a century, researchers have been working to understand how memories are formed and then fixed for recall in the days, weeks or even years that follow. But those scientists might have been looking at only half the picture. To understand how we remember, we must also understand how, and why, we forget. Until about ten years ago, most researchers thought that forgetting was a passive process in which memories, unused, decay over time like a photograph left in the sunlight. But then a handful of researchers who were investigating memory began to bump up against findings that seemed to contradict that decades-old assumption. They began to put forward the radical idea that the brain is built to forget. [/QUOTE]
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