Peter Cochrane: Is forgetting essential for learning?

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Wouldn't it be great if you could remember everything you ever learnt, saw or heard? Actually, it wouldn't, writes Professor Peter Cochrane

For decades ‘brain decay' due to dying synapses and reduced connectivity was seen as an inevitable consequence of old age. But more recently we have realised that healthy brains subject to continua...

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