Memory suppression is an active process that improves over childhood

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages

  Paz Alonso, Pedro M ^a,b,c   Ghetti, Simona ^b   Matlen, Bryan J ^b,d   Anderson, Michael C ^e   Bunge, Silvia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood; Cognitive development; Episodic retrieval; Inhibition; Medial temporal lobe; Memory suppression; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751486739     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.024.2009     Document Type: Article

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