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Professor Banich said forgetting is
. She said it keeps the brain working
. Her research found ways that people remove
from their brain. She said: "We have control over the
to remove information from…our thoughts." This is important because it means we can focus on more important
. However, although we can control what and how we forget, the
of forgetting needs a lot of effort. Another researcher, Sara Festini, agreed. She said: We've found that
forgetting no-longer-relevant information from the
is beneficial, but it doesn't happen automatically." Researchers will now look at why we forget
events, like where we left our
.
