Forgetting - Scott A. Small

Racking your brain? Drawing a blank? Maybe it's not such a bad thing.Until recently, it was largely believed that forgetting served no purpose. Besides causing slight frustration, the odd slip of the mind was thought of as an inevitable but harmless defect in the brain's functionality.But new research in psychology, neurobiology, and computer science tells a different story. Forgetting is not a failure of our minds, nor is it a benign glitch it is, in fact, good for us, and is a required function... Zobrazit více