Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting

Highlights • Motivated forgetting of unwanted memories shapes what we retain of our personal past.• Motivated forgetting is achieved in part by inhibitory control over encoding or retrieval.• Prefrontal cortex reduces hippocampal and cortical activity to suppress memories.• Electrophysiological activity during motivated forgetting implicates active inhibition.• A neurobiological model of memory control can inform disordered control over memory.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2014.03.002PMID 24747000PMCID 4045208
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