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上周刚见过的人，这周又不记得叫什么名字了。总爱忘事儿让人烦恼，然而最新研究表明，健忘可能是优点。大脑选择性的记忆能让你做出更明智的决策，也体现出你的高智商。 You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength — in fact, selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence. 如果事事牢记不是你的强项，你可以放心了。最新研究表明，健忘可能是个优点。事实上，选择性记忆甚至可能表明智商更高。 Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology of forgetting can be just as important to our decision-making as what our minds choose to remember. 传统上有关记忆的研究一直专注于牢记不忘的优势。但是，通过最近几年统计的记忆数据，加拿大多伦多大学的研究人员保罗•弗兰克兰和布莱克•理查兹发现，就决策而言，与遗忘有关的神经生物学同大脑选择牢记不忘同等重要。 “The goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time, per se. Rather, the goal of memory is to optimize decision-making. As such, transience is as important as persistence in mnemonic systems,” their study in Neuron states. | 
