Memories are slippery things \u2013 some are crystal clear, others more like a muddy pool, and some\u2026 well, they seem to vanish completely.\nScientists admit that memory is all very complicated, but one piece of the puzzle lies in how we age \u2013 we\u2019ll hear the latest research.\nMeanwhile, meet the man who digitally logged his every waking moment - and why maybe the secret to happiness isn\u2019t in remembering but in forgetting.\nPlus, the case for deleting data from your hard-drive\u2026 and from your brain itself.\nGuests:\n\n\nAdam Gazzaley - Director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at University of California, San Francisco\n\n\nGordon Bell - Principal researcher at Microsoft Research\n\n\nJim Gemmell - Senior researcher at Microsoft Research\n\n\nJames McGaugh - Neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine\n\n\nViktor Mayer-Sch\xf6nberger - Director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore\u2019s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and the author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age\n\n\n\nTodd Sacktor - Neurologist, SUNY Downstate Medical Center\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices