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How Your Brain Deletes Trauma

TOTAL RECALL

A new study shows that the act of remembering leads to the subtle forgetting of other memories.

Our brains actually aren’t able to absorb infinite amounts of information: new research has revealed that memories operate on something closer to a one-in, one-out policy.

The process of recall causes people to lose other memories, meaning that our attempts to remember certain things lead to the forgetting of others.

The study—a...

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