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Context plays a big role in our memories, both good and bad. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” on the car radio, for example, may remind you of your first love — or your first speeding ticket. But a Dartmouth- and Princeton-led brain scanning study shows that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories.
The findings have a range of potential applications centered on enhancing desired memories, such as developing new educational tools, or diminishing harmful memories, including treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The study appears in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Since Ancient Greece, memory theorists have known that we use context — or the situation we’re in, including sights, sounds, smells, where we are, who we are with — to organize and retrieve our memories.
But the Dartmouth- and Princeton-led team wanted to know whether and how people can intentionally forget past experiences.
They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories’ contexts, and put a new twist on a centuries-old psychological research technique of having subjects memorize and recall a list of unrelated words.
In the new study, researchers showed participants images of outdoor scenes, such as forests, mountains and beaches, as they studied two lists of random words, manipulating whether they were told to forget or remember the first list prior to studying the second list.
“Our hope was the scene images would bias the background, or contextual, thoughts that people had as they studied the words to include scene-related thoughts,” says lead author Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth.
“We used fMRI to track how much people were thinking of scene-related things at each moment during our experiment. That allowed us to track, on a moment-by-moment basis, how those scene or context representations faded in and out of people’s thoughts over time.”
The study’s participants were told to either forget or remember the random words presented to them interspersed between scene images. Right after they were told to forget, the fMRI showed that they “flushed out” the scene-related activity from their brains.
“It’s like intentionally pushing thoughts of your grandmother’s cooking out of your mind if you don’t want to think about your grandmother at that moment,” Manning says.
“We were able to physically measure and quantify that process using brain data.”
But when the researchers told participants to remember the studied list rather than forget it, this flushing out of scene-related thoughts didn’t occur. Further, the amount that people flushed out scene-related thoughts predicted how many of the studied words they would later remember, which shows the process is effective at facilitating forgetting.
Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, and his collaborators show that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories. Credit: Reigh LeBlanc.
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The study has two important implications.
“First, memory studies are often concerned with how we remember rather than how we forget, and forgetting is typically viewed as a ‘failure’ in some sense,
but sometimes forgetting can be beneficial, too,” Manning says.
“For example, we might want to forget a traumatic event, such as soldiers with PTSD*.
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*PTSD or Posttraumatic stress disorder is a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, or other threats on a person’s life.
A mask, painted by a Marine who attends art therapy to relieve post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, is displayed at an art expo May 3. The expo provided a way to raise awareness about PTSD and the benefits of art therapy. During therapy sessions, participants use a variety of art supplies, including paints, clay, markers, charcoal and images for collages, to express their thoughts, feelings and memories. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Andrew Johnston).
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Or we might want to get old information ‘out of our head,’ so we can focus on learning new material. Our study identified one mechanism that supports these processes.”
The second implication is more subtle but also important.
“It’s very difficult to specifically identify the neural representations of contextual information,” Manning says.
“If you consider the context you experience something in, we’re really referring to the enormously complex, seemingly random thoughts you had during that experience.
Those thoughts are presumably idiosyncratic to you as an individual, and they’re also potentially unique to that specific moment.
So, tracking the neural representations of these things is extremely challenging because we only ever have one measurement of a particular context.
Therefore, you can’t directly train a computer to recognize what context ‘looks like’ in the brain because context is a continually moving and evolving target.
In our study, we sidestepped this issue using a novel experimental manipulation — we biased people to incorporate those scene images into the thoughts they had when they studied new words.
Since those scenes were common across people and over time,
we were able to use fMRI to track the associated mental representations from moment to moment.”
Funding: The study, which included scientists at Bard College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, was supported by the John Templeton Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Source: John Cramer – Dartmouth College
Image Source: The image is credited to Reigh LeBlanc.
Original Research: The study will appear in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Source / Fuente / Πηγή: Νeurosciencenews
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