Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Human memory retrieval and inhibitory control in the brain: beyond correlational evidence.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Mechanisms of Forgetting: A Systematic Review of Neurocognitive and Clinical Determinants.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Pooled it
- A review of autobiographical memory studies on patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of neuromodulation on cognitive performance in individuals exhibiting addictive behaviors: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Pooled it
- Prefrontal tDCS fails to modulate memory retrieval in younger and older adults.Current biology : CB · 2025Trial
- Medial Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Reduces Retrieval-Induced Forgetting via Fronto-parietal Beta Desynchronization.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Trial
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- Dissociable memory modulation mechanisms facilitate fear amnesia at different timescales.eLife · 2025Article
- Stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduces conflict-induced forgetting.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Early Detection of Cognitive Decline: Executive Functioning Index R4Alz-pc Predicts Memory-Related Concerns in Community Adults.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Memory persistence: from fundamental mechanisms to translational opportunities.Translational psychiatry · 2024Review
- Alpha and Theta Oscillations Are Causally Linked to Interference Inhibition: Evidence from High-Definition Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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- Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of left and right inferior frontal gyrus on creative divergent thinking are moderated by changes in inhibition control.Brain structure & function · 2020Article
- Testing the transdiagnostic hypothesis of inhibitory control deficits in addictions: An experimental study on gambling disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Article
- The Effect of Response Inhibition Training on Risky Decision-Making Task Performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A retrieval-specific mechanism of adaptive forgetting in the mammalian brain.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Deficits in episodic memory are related to uncontrolled eating in a sample of healthy adults.Appetite · 2018Article
- Assessing the effects of tDCS over a delayed response inhibition task by targeting the right inferior frontal gyrus and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
- The relationship between thought suppression and retrieval-induced forgetting: an analysis of witness memories.Cognitive processing · 2015Article
- Spreading Effect of tDCS in Individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as Shown by Functional Cortical Networks: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2015Article
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Abstract
Retrieving information from long-term memory can result in the episodic forgetting of related material. One influential account states that this retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) phenomenon reflects inhibitory mechanisms called into play to decrease retrieval competition. Recent neuroimaging studies suggested that the prefrontal cortex, which is critically engaged in inhibitory processing, is also involved in retrieval competition situations. Here, we used transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to address whether inhibitory processes could be causally linked to RIF. tDCS was administered over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during the retrieval-practice phase in a standard retrieval-practice paradigm. Sixty human participants were randomly assigned to anodal, cathodal, or sham-control groups. The groups showed comparable benefits for practiced items. In contrast, unlike both the sham and anodal groups, the cathodal group exhibited no RIF. This pattern is interpreted as evidence for a causal role of inhibitory mechanisms in episodic retrieval and forgetting.
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