Too Much Memory May be a bad thing

New research from Columbia University Medical Center may explain why people who are able to easily and accurately recall historical dates or long-ago events, may have a harder time with word recall or remembering the day’s current events. They may have too much memory –making it harder to filter out information and increasing the time it takes for new short-term memories to be processed and stored. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 13, 2007 issue), the research reinforces the old adage that too much of anything –even something good for you– can actually be detrimental.

Sounds to me like Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics as well.