16 Mar
2011
16 Mar
'11
7:42 p.m.
The next talk in the CDC Seminar Series will be given by
Mihály Racsmány, BME and University of Szeged
Date: THURSDAY, March 17, 2011, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
Episodic inhibition: the goal-related nature of memory suppression
Abstract: Memories are shaped and edited by various encoding and
retrieval processes. An influential concept of these processes
suggests that inhibitory control mechanisms may be recruited to
prevent unwanted memories from coming to mind (Anderson, 2003), and
this executive control will suppress the representation of unwanted
memories. A slightly different version of this concept is that the
contents of memories are inhibited rather than memories themselves. We
have called this latter idea “episodic inhibition”, which emphasizes
that there is a pattern of activation/inhibition over the contents of
every episodic memory, and this strongly influences access to specific
features of the content, e.g. representations of words in a memory of
a recently acquired word list (Racsmány and Conway, 2006). The present
talk will report a series of recent experiments underlying this
concept. The main proposal of the talk is that inhibitory processes
are acting on context-dependent, goal-based episodic memory
representations.
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