Of the various ways that memory shows its imperfections, the most prevalent by far is forgetting. We forget much of what we read, watch, think, and encounter directly in the world. (Of course, we also ...

The night after my high school graduation, most of my classmates hit the bars to get drunk. Rather than join them, I picked a tamer celebration, assuming that I would be less likely to get into ...

You meet someone, shake hands, hear their name clearly, and then it’s gone seconds later. For many people, forgetting names feels like a personal cognitive failure. But psychologists say this ...