Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories

Subliminal backdoors to forgetting emotional memories

Weakening negative memories often requires first remembering those events. To bypass this distressing process, Zhu et al. elicited forgetting by subliminally reactivating negative memories near in time to retrieval suppression of unrelated memories. Casting an amnesic shadow over harmful, reactivate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Trends in cognitive sciences 2023-03, Vol.27 (3), p.222-223
Hauptverfasser: Greer, Jamie, Morrow, Erin, Clewett, David
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cognition
emotional memory
Emotions
forgetting
Humans
Inhibition, Psychological
memory
Mental Recall
post-traumatic stress disorder
retrieval
retrieval suppression
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Zusammenfassung:Weakening negative memories often requires first remembering those events. To bypass this distressing process, Zhu et al. elicited forgetting by subliminally reactivating negative memories near in time to retrieval suppression of unrelated memories. Casting an amnesic shadow over harmful, reactivated memories thereby brings new therapeutic possibilities, and questions, to light.
ISSN:1364-6613
1879-307X
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.009