Science Daily: In learning, the brain forgets things on purpose.
“… a new study in flies suggests that kind of forgetfulness doesn’t just happen. Rather, an active process of erasing memories may in some ways be as important as the ability to lay down new memories ...”
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I wonder sometimes if the brain ever really forgets *anything.* As I get older, different memories bubble forth that I believed were long gone.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 02/24/10 at 10:44 PM
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There was something about this in one of the Radiolab episodes, I think it was Sleep. It was said there that while sleeping, the brain actively forgets things that are not important, and in consequence other things, like the song you practised on the guitar over and over and over again are remembered better. It’s been a while since I listened to that episode, but I think that was the gist.