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Forgetting is a feature of a working memory system rather than a failure of it.

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  1. Alan Castel

    Professor of psychology at UCLA

    It's as simple as you you need to know your hotel room number when you're staying there. But if I ask you your hotel room number a week later, it's gone. But that's good in a way because you're going to have other numbers to remember and other hotel room numbers to remember. So there's benefits of forgetting.

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