For the first time, neuroscientists have observed the
recollection of certain memories causing the brain to forget
another, similar memory.
The team, led by Maria Wimber from the University of Birmingham,
asked human subjects to perform a number of “boring” tasks, which
included looking at pictures of both Marilyn Monroe and Albert
Einstein repeatedly, and associating them with a set of cue words.
They sampled the brain’s response to those pictures to identify
their imprints.
By: Duncan Geere,
