Retrieval Inhibition in Autobiographical Memory

The Act of Remembering: Toward an Understanding of How We Recall the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 202-227

  Pastötter, Bernhard ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval complex process, involving processing of episodic, semantic and emotional information; Emotion and retrieval inhibition; Experimental paradigms for study of inhibitory processes; Experimental paradigms in research on retrieval inhibition in episodic memory; Hippocampal and amygdala activity modulated by prefrontal activations, guiding memory search; Intentional forgetting is think no think (TNT) impairment; Neural substrates of AM retrieval; Retrieval inhibition in autobiographical memory; Retrieval of unpleasant AMs or traumatic events, depending on inhibitory processes; Voluntary retrieval inhibition examined in directed forgetting (DF) paradigm

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EID: 84875040971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328202.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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