Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

By Michael C. Anderson, Kevin N. Ochsner, Brice A. Kuhl, Jeffrey C. Cooper, Elaine R. Robertson, S. Gabrieli, Gary H. Glover, John D. E. Gabrieli. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype (2010, background): “The authors conclude that their study provides a possible neurobiological model for suppression of unwanted memories, consistent with the occurrence of dissociative amnesia (33).”
The Role of Inhibitory Control in Forgetting Unwanted Memories: A Consideration of Three Methods (2005, methodology): “Anderson et al. (2004) recently examined this fronto-hippocampal hypothesis using the think/no-think procedure.”
Cognitive Deficits in Depression and Functional Specificity of Regional Brain Activity (2007, result): “For example, this region appears to be involved in the suppression of unwanted memories (Anderson et al., 2004), a finding with particular relevance to depression, where negative information is more readily recalled than positive, in contrast to nondepressed people (DeMonbreun & Craighead, 1977; Got”
A taxonomy of external and internal attention. (2011, positive): “The act of retrieving one item increases the likelihood of later forgetting other unretrieved items that share associative links (Anderson et al. 2004).”
Moderate Levels of Activation Lead to Forgetting In the Think/No-Think Paradigm (2013, positive): “As has been done in other think/no-think studies (e.g., (Anderson et al., 2004)), the instruction to either think or not think in response to a cue was conveyed via the color of the cue word: If the cue word was presented in green, this indicated to participants that they should think of the…”
Suppressing Unwanted Memories (2009, methodology): “Indeed, hippocampal activity is reduced when participants suppress retrieval compared to when they retrieve a memory, suggesting that people can intentionally regulate hippocampal activation to disengage recollection (Anderson et al., 2004; Fig.”
The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious (2011, methodology): “Anderson et al. (2004) used a “think/no-think paradigm” where participants first learned word pairs (e.g., Ordeal–Roach), and then, during fMRI, were shown one member of a pair (e.g., Ordeal) and told to recall and think about the associated response (e.g., Roach) (respond condition) or to prevent…”
The state of betrayal trauma theory: Reply to McNally—Conceptual issues, and future directions (2007, background): “…to forgetting of trauma; however, the former research constitutes an enormous body of empirical evidence for potential mechanisms of forgetting that may operate in some cases of amnesia for trauma stimuli (see Anderson et al., 2004; Gleaves, Smith, Butler, & Spiegel, 2004; Sivers et al., 2001).”
Conversion hystérique, hypnose et imagerie cérébrale (2010, positive): “Moreover, the right IFG mediates inhibition for a wide range of behaviors, including not only prepotent responses but also inappropriate thoughts (Anderson et al., 2004) or memories (Depue et al., 2006).”