ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019
More Is Less: Increased Processing of Unwanted Memories Facilitates Forgetting.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06460207 (A 4-day Study of Neurofeedback Training of Cognitive Control in Healthy Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- A smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differentiation of hippocampal activity in older adults.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Obliviate! Reviewing Neural Fundamentals of Intentional Forgetting from a Meta-Analytic Perspective.Biomedicines · 2022Review
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- The visual arrays task: Visual storage capacity or attention control?Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Article
- More attention with less working memory: The active inhibition of attended but outdated information.Science advances · 2021Article
- Forgetting under difficult conditions: Item-method directed forgetting under perceptual processing constraints.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Separation of item and context in item-method directed forgetting.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Indirect modulation of human visual memory.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The intention to forget can produce long-lasting effects. This ability has been linked to suppression of both rehearsal and retrieval of unwanted memories, processes mediated by the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. Here, we describe an alternative account in which the intention to forget is associated with increased engagement with the unwanted information. We used pattern classifiers to decode human functional magnetic resonance imaging data from a task in which male and female participants viewed a series of pictures and were instructed to remember or forget each one. Pictures followed by a forget instruction elicited higher levels of processing in the ventral temporal cortex compared with those followed by a remember instruction. This boost in processing led to more forgetting, particularly for items that showed moderate (vs weak or strong) activation. This result is consistent with the nonmonotonic plasticity hypothesis, which predicts weakening and forgetting of memories that are moderately activated.
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