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SUBMITTER: Wimber M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4394359 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wimber Maria M Alink Arjen A Charest Ian I Kriegeskorte Nikolaus N Anderson Michael C MC
Nature neuroscience 20150316 4
Remembering a past experience can, surprisingly, cause forgetting. Forgetting arises when other competing traces interfere with retrieval and inhibitory control mechanisms are engaged to suppress the distraction they cause. This form of forgetting is considered to be adaptive because it reduces future interference. The effect of this proposed inhibition process on competing memories has, however, never been observed, as behavioral methods are 'blind' to retrieval dynamics and neuroimaging method ...[more]