Over the past century, psychologists have discussed whether forgetting might arise from
active mechanisms that promote memory loss to achieve various functions, such as …

Pattern separation, or the process by which highly similar stimuli or experiences in memory
are represented by non-overlap** neural ensembles, has typically been ascribed to …

INTRODUCTION One of the fundamental questions in clinical neuroscience is why some
individuals can cope with traumatic events, while others remain traumatized by a haunting …

Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional
experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional …

A key function of the prefrontal cortex is to support inhibitory control over behavior. It is
widely believed that this function extends to stop** cognitive processes as well …

Intrusive memories often take the form of distressing images that emerge into a person's
awareness, unbidden. A fundamental goal of clinical neuroscience is to understand the …

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) occur in psychotic disorders, but also as a symptom of
other conditions and even in healthy people. Several current theories on the origin of AVH …

Most people have experienced distressing events that they would rather forget. Although
memories of such events become less intrusive with time for the majority of people, those …

Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, aids performance
on a wide range of laboratory tasks. However, there are many day-to-day functions which …

Intrusive memories, images, and hallucinations are hallmark symptoms of psychiatric
disorders. Although often attributed to deficient inhibitory control by the prefrontal cortex …