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What if you remembered everything that happened to you, hour by hour? Your life would be… hell! To be able to organize your thoughts and learn, you must indeed sort, select, reject, and keep only what is essential.
Fortunately for our cognitive health, information that we do not consider useful or that we do not want to tell others disappears immediately.
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This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°223 dated October/December 2025.
"Try to retrace everything you remember since waking up this morning. How many people did you pass? What color were the cars on your way to the office?" This exercise, proposed by Géraldine Rauchs, a doctor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Caen, shows how much forgetfulness is part of everyday life.
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