You walk into a room with an idea in mind, and then suddenly, it's empty. You no longer know what you came there to do or say. This phenomenon, well known in everyday life, has a name in cognitive ...

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 ...

She has been wandering the halls, searching for her husband. Lost and worried. Where is he? Why did he abandon me here? This is the pain of forgetting. My mother has Alzheimer’s disease. In earlier ...

Do you remember the first headline when you entered the Psychology Today website? Or the second news item you checked on your smartphone app today? Or what you had for lunch four days ago? The more ...