Whenever I meet someone new and they discover that, as a professor of psychology and neuroscience, I study memory for a living, the most common question I get is: ‘Why am I so forgetful?’
I often ask myself the same question. Daily, I forget names, faces, conversations, even what I’m supposed to be doing at any given time.
We all wring our hands over those moments. Forgetting remains one of the most puzzling and frustrating aspects of the human experience