AMES, IA – Whether you’re trying to ace a test or pick up a new hobby, Iowa State Psychology Professor Shana Carpenter says combining two strategies – spacing and retrieval practice – is key to ...

Forgetting things can be annoying. It can even be worrying. What was that colleague’s name? What time is the appointment tomorrow? Was that vendor offering us 25 percent off 200 products, or 20 ...

What if forgetting isn’t a failure but an essential feature of your brain’s design? For decades, we’ve been taught to fear memory lapses misplacing keys, blanking on names, or struggling to recall a ...

With the continuing flow of time and changing circumstances, some ideas are carried forward, and some ideas are lost. Source: Paul-e/Wikimedia Commons Successfully realizing positive change, whether ...

We’ve all been there: You head into a room with purpose only to find yourself standing aimlessly, scratching your head, unable to remember why you entered in the first place. Forgetfulness (when not ...

There’s no denying that our memories sometimes falter in our fast-paced, information-overloaded world. Almost everyone has forgotten something significant or misplaced items like their keys. According ...

Forgetting is operationally defined as the declining ability to retrieve information across time. And what you can see here in this image is on the X-axis is time. So number of days or a month, and ...