ArticleNature communications2021
An engram of intentionally forgotten information.
Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Maintenance and transformation of representational formats during working memory prioritization.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Neural interactions in the human frontal cortex dissociate reward and punishment learning.eLife · 2024Article
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- Observing the suppression of individual aversive memories from conscious awareness.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Information flow between motor cortex and striatum reverses during skill learning.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Representational formats of human memory traces.Brain structure & function · 2024Review
- Neuromodulation and memory: exploring ethical ramifications in memory modification treatment via implantable neurotechnologies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Successful forgetting of unwanted memories is crucial for goal-directed behavior and mental wellbeing. While memory retention strengthens memory traces, it is unclear what happens to memory traces of events that are actively forgotten. Using intracranial EEG recordings from lateral temporal cortex, we find that memory traces for actively forgotten information are partially preserved and exhibit unique neural signatures. Memory traces of successfully remembered items show stronger encoding-retrieval similarity in gamma frequency patterns. By contrast, encoding-retrieval similarity of item-specific memory traces of actively forgotten items depend on activity at alpha/beta frequencies commonly associated with functional inhibition. Additional analyses revealed selective modification of item-specific patterns of connectivity and top-down information flow from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to lateral temporal cortex in memory traces of intentionally forgotten items. These results suggest that intentional forgetting relies more on inhibitory top-down connections than intentional remembering, resulting in inhibitory memory traces with unique neural signatures and representational formats.
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