Tag: Forgetting

Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin discovered through neuroimaging. These findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that in order to forget an unwanted experience, more attention should be focused on it. This surprising result extends prior research

It’s a common expression to say that your brain is full. Although the brain doesn’t literally fill up, in recent years researchers have discovered that the brain does sometimes push out old memories in order to take up new ones. Now, a team at Scripps Research has shown for the first time the physiological mechanism

An ultra long-distance runner made the horrible mistake of forgetting to re-apply sunscreen during a 111km run – and it isn’t pretty. Mum-of-two Julie Nisbet had successfully completed an astonishingly long run along Hadrian’s walk in The United Kingdom which had her braving the elements for a jaw-dropping 21 hours. It didn’t take her long