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Emotion Causes Targeted Forgetting of Established Memories

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2010
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Title
Emotion Causes Targeted Forgetting of Established Memories
Published in
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2010
DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00175
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Authors

Bryan A. Strange, Marijn C. W. Kroes, Judith E. Fan, Raymond J. Dolan

Abstract

Reconsolidation postulates that reactivation of a memory trace renders it susceptible to disruption by treatments similar to those that impair initial memory consolidation. Despite evidence that implicit, or non-declarative, human memories can be disrupted at retrieval, a convincing demonstration of selective impairment in retrieval of target episodic memories following reactivation is lacking. In human subjects, we demonstrate that if reactivation of a verbal memory, through successful retrieval, is immediately followed by an emotionally aversive stimulus, a significant impairment is evident in its later recall. This effect is time-dependent and persists for at least 6 days. Thus, in line with a reconsolidation hypothesis, established human episodic memories can be selectively impaired following their retrieval.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Italy 2 1%
Germany 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 152 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 36 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 21%
Student > Master 20 12%
Student > Bachelor 14 9%
Professor 11 7%
Other 33 20%
Unknown 13 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 73 45%
Neuroscience 28 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 3%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 19 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2011.
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#15,240,835
of 22,660,862 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
#2,212
of 3,141 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#133,996
of 163,484 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
#16
of 29 outputs
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