When a beach bag turns into a memory hole for your sweater

Suppose you are packing a suitcase for the beach. How does searching for your bathing suit influence your memory? Is it easier to remember the items that you packed for your beach trip than the sweater you decided to put back in the closet? Recent research shows that items left behind may suffer a memory decrement.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - August 10, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news