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

Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend
thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Remembering a past experience can, surprisingly, cause forgetting. Forgetting arises when
other competing traces interfere with retrieval and inhibitory control mechanisms are …

Reminders of the past can trigger the recollection of events that one would rather forget.
Here, using fMRI, we demonstrate two distinct neural mechanisms that foster the intentional …

Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation
based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural …

Recent and pioneering animal research has revealed the brain utilizes a variety of
molecular, cellular, and network-level mechanisms used to forget memories in a process …

Remembering and forgetting reflect fundamentally interdependent processes in human
memory (Bjork, 2011). This interdependency is particularly apparent in research on retrieval …

When reminded of unwanted memories, people often attempt to suppress these experiences
from awareness. Prior work indicates that control processes mediated by the dorsolateral …

The brain has a remarkable but underappreciated capacity to limit memory formation and
expression. The term" memory suppressor gene" was coined in 1998 as an attempt to …