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August 29, 2004

Learning how to forget

After decades of studying how memory works, scientists are trying to figure out how we forget.

Their goal is to help people:

• Forget painful things they don't want to remember, from an embarrassing moment in high school or a stupid mistake at work on up to a rape or traumatic accident.

? Not forget things they do want to remember, such as where they left their keys or the name of the boss's spouse, all the way up to slowing the devastation of Alzheimer's disease.

Instead of just giving memory tests to people, neuroscientists are using recent technologies that observe the living brain at work, such as fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and PET (positron emission tomography).

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Posted by thinkingmachine at August 29, 2004 06:55 AM

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