article_snippet: The act of remembering may be one of the major reasons why we forget, researchers have said.
article_snippet: The groundbreaking research  proved that intentional recall is beyond a simple reawakening of a memory; and actually leads us to forget other competing experiences that interfere with retrieval.
article_snippet: The study from the University of Birmingham and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge is the first to isolate the 'adaptive forgetting' mechanism in the human brain.
article_snippet: The groundbreaking research  found that remembering dynamically alters which aspects of our past remain accessible.