http://hardtlab.com/ 2026-04-28T20:45:25+00:00 http://hardtlab.com/ http://hardtlab.com/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-07-15T18:13:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://hardtlab.com/doku.php?id=outreach:arememorieseverlost&rev=1689459184&do=diff Are memories ever lost? The word forgetting refers to an outcome, not a particular process. The outcome is that we cannot remember something we once were able to remember. This can be temporarily so, or permanently. There has been a long-standing and yet unresolved debate whether forgetting reflects the actual loss of a memory, or impeded access to an existing memory. This is more of a principal problem, as Nietzsche pointed out remarking that text/html 2024-07-23T14:15:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://hardtlab.com/doku.php?id=outreach:formsofforgetting&rev=1721758547&do=diff Forgetting processes There are two phases in research on forgetting. During the first phase, lasting until the first decade of the 21st century, forgetting was largely regarded as a shortcoming of memory, as a malfunction of actual memory processes, such as memory formation or retrieval. There were some notable exceptions to this view, for example the idea prominently formulated by Freud that some forgetting results from targeted repression, or inhibition, of memory. In the laboratory, this … text/html 2024-05-22T13:08:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://hardtlab.com/doku.php?id=outreach:introduction&rev=1716397732&do=diff Forgetting: An Introduction Most of us regard forgetting as an annoyance because our memory fails us. This also has been the most prominent view in memory research in the last century. But during the past decade, we have learned that this is not true. In fact, most of everyday forgetting is not a glitch in the normal functioning of the brain, but a feature of memory. Forgetting is so fundamental to memory that without it, we would have no memory at all.