Anderson & Hanslmayr (2014)

Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(6), 279-292

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Anderson, M. C., & Hanslmayr, S. (2014). Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(6), 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.03.002

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Motivated Forgetting Memory Processes

Definition

Suppression can act at encoding (a cue to forget an item or list just studied, as in directed forgetting) or at retrieval (stopping recall when a reminder appears, as in think/no-think), and both are thought to leave lasting biases in which experiences stay accessible