ArticleBehavior research methods2024
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Think/No-Think task, but forgot to ask.
Article in Behavior research methods, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- The activation of thematic semantic relation representations is intrusive but modulated by thematic association strength: evidence from the Think/No-Think paradigm.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation modulates subsequent control of unwanted memories.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Prefrontal and Cerebellar Contributions to Semantic Memory Retrieval.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- The effectiveness and adaptiveness of suppressing unwanted thoughts.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Slowdown vs. breakdown of memory recall by retrieval stopping.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Dissociative experiences alter resting state functional connectivity after childhood abuse.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Inhibitory control in addictive behaviors: is there room for memory suppression?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Long-lasting negativity in the left motoric brain structures during word memory inhibition in the Think/No-Think paradigm.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reconsidering thought suppression and ironic processing: implications for clinical treatment of traumatic memories.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How do the sleep features that characterise depression impact memory?Emerging topics in life sciences · 2023Review
- Emotional associative memory is disrupted by directed forgetting.Communications psychology · 2023Article
- A mindful approach to controlling intrusive thoughts.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The Think/No-Think (TNT) task has just celebrated 20 years since its inception, and its use has been growing as a tool to investigate the mechanisms underlying memory control and its neural underpinnings. Here, we present a theoretical and practical guide for designing, implementing, and running TNT studies. For this purpose, we provide a step-by-step description of the structure of the TNT task, methodological choices that can be made, parameters that can be chosen, instruments available, aspects to be aware of, systematic information about how to run a study and analyze the data. Importantly, we provide a TNT training package (as Supplementary Material), that is, a series of multimedia materials (e.g., tutorial videos, informative HTML pages, MATLAB code to run experiments, questionnaires, scoring sheets, etc.) to complement this method paper and facilitate a deeper understanding of the TNT task, its rationale, and how to set it up in practice. Given the recent discussion about the replication crisis in the behavioral sciences, we hope that this contribution will increase standardization, reliability, and replicability across laboratories.
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