From the New York Times: Story? Unforgettable. The Audience? Often Not.

“You hear people of all ages, not just elderly people, say, ‘Stop me if I’ve told you this before,’ ” said Nigel Gopie, a postdoctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute, in Toronto, who has a paper in the current issue of the journal on these memory lapses.

“We often have a hard time remembering who we told things to, and clearly it starts early.”