Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

An engram of intentionally forgotten information

  • Sanne Ten Oever,
  • Alexander T. Sack,
  • Carina R. Oehrn,
  • Nikolai Axmacher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26713-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The authors used intracranial EEG recordings from patients with epilepsy to show that successful intentional forgetting is due to a selective modification of item-specific top-down connections and not simply a degradation of the memory traces.