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

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 …

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 …

Background Flashbacks are the hallmark symptom of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Although we have successful treatments for full-blown PTSD, early interventions are lacking …

Whether memories can be suppressed has been a controversial issue in psychology and
cognitive neuroscience for decades. We found evidence that emotional memories are …

Historically, research on forgetting has been dominated by the assumption that forgetting is
passive, reflecting decay, interference, and changes in context. This emphasis arises from …

Forgetting is often considered a fundamental cognitive failure, reflecting the undesirable and
potentially embarrassing inability to retrieve a sought-after experience or fact. For this …

When confronted with reminders to an unpleasant memory, people often try to prevent the
unwanted memory from coming to mind. In this article, we review behavioral and …

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

In the stop-signal task, an electrophysiological signature of action-stopping is increased
early right frontal beta band power for successful vs. failed stop trials. Here we tested …