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SUBMITTER: Bobrowicz K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387339 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200728 1
Memory allows us to draw on past experiences to inform behaviour in the present. However, memories rarely match the situation at hand exactly, and new situations regularly trigger multiple related memories where only some are relevant to act upon. The flexibility of human memory systems is largely attributed to the ability to disregard irrelevant, but salient, memories in favour of relevant ones. This is considered an expression of an executive function responsible for suppressing irrelevant mem ...[more]