Scientists are asking the public to share their most vivid memories to uncover why some moments feel as fresh as the day they happened.

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 ...

I meant to write this post last week, but I kept forgetting. This is no joke. I remembered and then forgot, twice, to write and publish this piece. Has this sort of thing happened to you in the past ...

On Memory and Recollection -- Memory and Imagination -- The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses -- Personal Memory, Collective Memory -- History, Epistemology -- History: Remedy or Poison? -- The ...

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

Introduction: Histories of forgetting -- Part 1. Building the social imaginary, 1885-1997. Booster myths, urban erasure ; L.A. noir and forgetting ; Building Blade ...