"In this sense, a forgotten memory is a lot like an old file on your computer. While the document still exists, you don't have a good way of getting to it, and today many memory researchers don't even use the word 'forgetting.'"
— Boser, Ulrich
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June 30, 2017
Metaphor
"In this sense, a forgotten memory is a lot like an old file on your computer. While the document still exists, you don't have a good way of getting to it, and today many memory researchers don't even use the word 'forgetting.'"
Metaphor in Context
In this sense, a forgotten memory is a lot like an old file on your computer. While the document still exists, you don't have a good way of getting to it, and today many memory researchers don't even use the word "forgetting." The term implies that a recollection is gone forever. Instead, forgetting is a matter of "retrieval failure."
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Citation
Ulrich Boser, "Forgot Where You Parked? Good," The New York Times (June 30, 2017). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Titled "Why It's Good to Forget" in the print edition of the Times.
Titled "Why It's Good to Forget" in the print edition of the Times.
Date of Entry
07/07/2017
