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SUBMITTER: Tomlinson TD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747165 | biostudies-other | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tomlinson Tracy D TD Huber David E DE Rieth Cory A CA Davelaar Eddy J EJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090826 37
Memory suppression is investigated with the no-think paradigm, which produces forgetting following repeated practice of not thinking about a memory [Anderson MC, Green C (2001) Nature 410:366-369]. Because the forgotten item is not retrieved even when tested with an independent, semantically related cue, it has been assumed that this forgetting is due to an inhibition process. However, this conclusion is based on a single stage to recall, whereas global memory models, which produce forgetting th ...[more]