Prefrontal Regions Orchestrate Suppression of Emotional Memories via a Two-Phase Process

@article{Depue2007PrefrontalRO,
  title={Prefrontal Regions Orchestrate Suppression of Emotional Memories via a Two-Phase Process},
  author={Brendan Eliot Depue and Tim Curran and Marie T. Banich},
  journal={Science},
  year={2007},
  volume={317},
  pages={215 - 219}
}
Whether memories can be suppressed has been a controversial issue in psychology and cognitive neuroscience for decades. We found evidence that emotional memories are suppressed via two time-differentiated neural mechanisms: (i) an initial suppression by the right inferior frontal gyrus over regions supporting sensory components of the memory representation (visual cortex, thalamus), followed by (ii) right medial frontal gyrus control over regions supporting multimodal and emotional components… 
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