Have you ever wondered why forgetting is so common? Why you can be confident about a past event, yet wrong about the details? Why you can study hard for an exam yet be unable to retrieve the content? Why you can forget someone’s name almost as soon as they’ve told it to you?

This talk, by Professor Elizabeth Kensinger, Chairperson of the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Boston College, will explain why these occurrences are so common, and may challenge some of your ideas about why we forget.

*** Organizer will provide lunch. ***