The seven sins of memory: Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience

Summary

Classifies memory’s failures into seven “sins”: transience, absent-mindedness and blocking (forgetting); misattribution, suggestibility and bias (distortion); and persistence (intrusive memories that are hard to forget). Argues they are by-products of otherwise adaptive features of memory.

CommentaryA checklist for any memory system: forgetting, distortion, and things that should fade but keep returning are all failure modes that long-term AI memory has to be designed for.