Forgetting provides cognitive and adaptive advantages for memory systems
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SUPPORTED
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Modern psychological and neuroscientific research supports the view that forgetting is not merely a memory failure, but an adaptive mechanism that optimizes cognitive resources by filtering out irrelevant information.
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Reference memory, working memory and adaptive forgetting : a comparative study in rats
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This thesis notes that forgetting is an adaptive process that filters non-essential information and prevents the saturation of cognitive resources.
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Adaptive Forgetting Speed in Working Memory
2023 · cited by 0
This study demonstrates that working memory adaptively tunes its forgetting rate based on the temporal relevance of information to optimize limited cognitive resources.