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      To have a perfect memory for every instant of one's life may seem desirable. Yet, a mind that is incapableof forgetting w would also be one that fails to distinguish min inutia from m core knowledge； o ； one that is incapable ofabstract thought. Thus, a key feature of memory is what is forgotten, or not even learned in the first place.Although the most noticeable factor that leads to forgetting is the passage of time, researchers have found thatforgetting is not just a passive process. Information competes for mental resources and so newly learnedinformation is vulnerable to interference from other mental activity.
      Much research attests to the fact that emotional events or stimuli are less likely to be forgotten than neutralevents or stimuli. This memorial advantage is due to a number of factors, including that emotional stimuli grabattention, that we tend to think and talk more about emotional events than neutral events, and that a brain regionthat responds to emotionally arousing stimuli modulates memory consolidation activity in the hippocampus, abrain region that plays a key role in acquiring new memories.
      Because of its dominamore likely to interfere with other information in memory than neutral information. This competitive advantagence in attentior on and mem mory, it is not surprising that emotional information should beof emotional information has been demonstrated in many studies. However, some recent findings suggest that,in some cases, the emotional nature of a stimulus make it the object of more interference than it might otherwiseface, leading it (or information linked to it) to be more likely to be forgotten than if the stimulus were neutral.
【題組】41. In what type of publications can the above passage most possibly be found?
(A) A leisure life magazine
(B) A scholarly joumal
(C) A gourmet guide
(D) An investment yearbook