It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary by Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil), offers those who study human memory an excellent examination of what's called a "reminiscence bump."

Reminiscence bump is a real thing, and it profoundly structures an autobiographical perspective, the way one sees the landscape of their life as they get older. Oddly enough, you remember your youth more vividly than later periods.

Researcher Gabriel A. Radvansky describes it this way in his book Human Memory: "[We have, as we get older,] a very good memory for life experiences around the age of 20 (between 15 and 25)... [This is] called the reminiscence bump. This is an interesting characteristic of autobiographical memory that is easier to observe as a person ages."

But why? Evolutionary biology has the an

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