Medical Express - A new study led by Assistant Professor Oliver Baumann of Bond University sheds fresh light on the way the body's most complex organ captures memories....
Dr. Baumann said the findings provide insight into how our memory system strives for efficiency and only encodes what it absolutely needs.
"Forgetting can be seen as a feature because we shouldn't encode more than we need and more is not always better," he said.
"People with Hyperthymesia remember almost everything in their life and while that seems like a neat feat, it comes with a downside because they have this huge mass of information present and it becomes very difficult to focus on a task.
"Forgetting helps declutter our mental space and it's all about efficiency."
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The older I get, the more efficient my brain becomes.
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