Click Here to Read: Memories Weaken Without Reinforcement, Study Finds By Pam Belluck in The New York Times on March 16, 2015.
As part of a study to see if forgotten memories actually get weaker in the brain, people were asked to recall photos they had been shown of famous people, ordinary objects or notable places. While they were recalling or viewing the pictures, brain scans registered distinct patterns for each image.CreditFrom top left, clockwise: Computational Perception and Cognition Lab at MIT, John D. Schiff, Dr. Maria Wimber, and Enoch Lau/CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons