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- Title
Inhibition-Induced Forgetting Results from Resource Competition between Response Inhibition and Memory Encoding Processes.
- Authors
Yu-Chin Chiu; Egner, Tobias
- Abstract
Response inhibition is a key component of executive control, but its relation to other cognitive processes is not well understood. We recently documented the "inhibition-induced forgetting effect": no-go cues are remembered more poorly than go cues. We attributed this effect to central-resource competition, whereby response inhibition saps attention away from memory encoding. However, this proposal is difficult to test with behavioral means alone. We therefore used fMRI in humans to test two neural predictions of the"commonresource hypothesis": (1) brain regions associated with response inhibition should exhibit greater resource demands during encoding of subsequently forgotten than remembered no-go cues; and (2) this higher inhibitory resource demand should lead to memory encoding regions having less resources available during encoding of subsequently forgotten no-go cues. Participants categorized face stimuli by gender in a go/no-go task and, following a delay, performed a surprise recognition memory test for those faces. Replicating previous findings, memory was worse for no-go than for go stimuli. Crucially, forgetting of no-go cues was predicted by high inhibitory resource demand, as quantified by the trial-by-trial ratio of activity in neural "no-go" versus "go" networks. Moreover, this index of inhibitory demand exhibited an inverse trial-by-trial relationship with activity in brain regions responsible for the encoding of no-go cues into memory, notably the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. This seesaw pattern between the neural resource demand of response inhibition and activity related to memory encoding directly supports the hypothesis that response inhibition temporarily saps attentional resources away from stimulus processing.
- Subjects
RESPONSE inhibition; MEMORY research; ATTENTION research; FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging; PREFRONTAL cortex
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, Vol 35, Issue 34, p11936
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0519-15.2015