Cognitive neuroscience: forgetting of things past.
Recent functional imaging and electrophysiological results indicate that failure to remember experiences can result from a decreased recruitment of encoding processes that build effective memories and an increased recruitment of alternative mechanisms that may impair effective learning.
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Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. awagner@psyche.mit.edu
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D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008568:Memory