@article{726054,
      recid = {726054},
      author = {Izquierdo, Ivan,},
      title = {The art of forgetting [electronic resource] /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 64 pages) :},
      note = {"This is the English version of the second edition of a  book published in Portuguese in 2011."},
      abstract = {How do we forget? Why do we need to forget? This book  intends to answer to these and other questions. It aims to  demonstrate that each one is who it is due to their own  memories. Thus, distinguish between the information we  should keep from those we should forget is an difficult  art. In this book, the author discusses about the different  types of memory, the main types of forgetting (avoidance,  extinction and repression), their brain areas and their  mechanisms. In this sense, the art of forgetting, or the  art of do not saturate our memory mechanisms, is something  innate, that benefits us anonymously, keeping us from  sinking amidst our own memories. The essays that compose  this book go through several aspects, since individuals to  societies' memory. By the end of the book, the reader will  be able to understand that we forget to be able to think,  to live and to survive.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/726054},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06716-2},
}