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Postanly Weekly, Issue #303

Postanly Weekly, Issue #303

To Improve Memory And Learning, The Brain Forgets Things on Purpose

Thomas Oppong
Feb 14, 2020
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To Improve Memory And Learning, The Brain Forgets Things on Purpose | Medium

Traditionally, forgetting names, skills, events or information is often thought of as purely negative — a passive decay. However unintuitive it may seem, research suggests that forgetting plays a positive role in the function of the …

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