Can you elaborate ? I’m curious about the topic because I’ve heard this statement from several of my friends, but I can’t quite wrap my head around it.
That doesn’t necessarily mean fiction is likely to cause problems.
I guess it depends, in part, on how similar the knowledge you deem important is similar to works of fiction. To use a trivial example, I doubt that any work of fiction would cause me to forget what 2 + 2 is equal to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_theory
New memories can interfere with the recall of old ones if they are similar.
That doesn’t necessarily mean fiction is likely to cause problems.
I guess it depends, in part, on how similar the knowledge you deem important is similar to works of fiction. To use a trivial example, I doubt that any work of fiction would cause me to forget what 2 + 2 is equal to.