Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. When you process your day-to-day experiences and turn them into ...

Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism that is essential for forming memories in the first place and, as it turns out, is equally essential for eliminating them after memories have formed. While we ...

JUPITER, FL, May 9, 2012 – While we often think of memory as a way of preserving the essential idea of who we are, little thought is given to the importance of forgetting to our wellbeing, whether ...

EUGENE, Ore.-Researchers at the University of Oregon and Stanford University have located a mechanism in the human brain that blocks unwanted memories. This is the first time that anyone has shown a ...

Researchers have shown for the first time the physiological mechanism by which a memory is formed and then subsequently forgotten. The research, which was done in fruit flies, looked at the synaptic ...

Regarding the recent Commentary by Gary Huggins, “It’s Time for Summer Learning ” (Jan. 16, 2013): Summer forgetting is a problem. However, it is not even close to the problem of forgetting during the ...