Forgetting names or your keys isn’t generally a sign that anything is seriously wrong with your memory, according to neuroscience. But that doesn’t mean these common lapses in memory aren’t annoying ...

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 ...

I still don’t know what I did wrong. Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel. Killing this living ...

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 ...

Dementia, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that damage the brain and affect nearly a million people in the UK, is the UK’s leading cause of death. The symptoms span from struggling with daily ...

Some things aren’t worth remembering. Science is slowly working out how we might let that stuff go. By Benedict Carey Whatever its other properties, memory is a reliable troublemaker, especially when ...

It was the day I was heading to the baseball stadium with a friend. The wallet I had tucked into my shirt pocket suddenly ...

JUPITER, Fla. - Nov. 21, 2017 - The fragrance of hot pumpkin pie can bring back pleasant memories of holidays past, while the scent of an antiseptic hospital room may cause a shudder. The power of ...

You’ll soon be able to tell ChatGPT to forget things — or remember specific things in future conversations. Today, as part of a test, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory” controls for a small portion ...

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 ...

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