{"id":2563,"date":"2017-11-21T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2017-12-06T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:35:45","slug":"the-benefits-of-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/the-benefits-of-forgetting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As teachers, we earnestly want our students to REMEMBER what they learned;\u00a0their habit of FORGETTING leave us glum and frustrated.<\/p>\n

(In truth, our own forgetting often leaves us glum and frustrated. If you could tell me where I put my to-do list, I’d be grateful.)<\/p>\n

In this article<\/a> at Neuron<\/em>, authors Blake Richards and Paul Frankland argue that our teacherly priorities don’t quite align with our neurobiology.<\/p>\n

In their account, we remember information not simply to have that information, but in order to make good decisions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In some cases, of course, having more information benefits our decisions<\/em>, and so our brains are designed to recall that information.<\/p>\n

In other cases, however, some kinds of information might well interfere with good decision making<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, if we forget correctly, we are a) less likely to make decisions based on outdated information, and b) better able to form useful generalizations.<\/p>\n

In other words: forgetting is a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n

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As teachers, we earnestly want our students to REMEMBER what they learned;\u00a0their habit of FORGETTING leave us glum and frustrated. (In truth, our own forgetting often leaves us glum and frustrated. If you could tell me where I put my to-do list, I’d be grateful.) In this article at Neuron, authors Blake Richards and Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-long-term-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}