Transience (Memory)

Transience is one of the psychologist Daniel Schacter's seven sins of memory, describing how the influence of one memory on another leads to the general deterioration of a specific memory over time. Two kinds of interference drive it: proactive interference, in which older memories make it harder to encode or retrieve newer ones, and retroactive interference, in which newer memories make it harder to recall older ones. Because of transience, recent events are typically remembered with more vivid, multidimensional detail than older ones, an effect especially visible for episodic memories that carry rich sensory and temporal detail at the time they are formed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/