Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2018 Sep 3;8:13132. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31400-x

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2018

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Experimental procedure and behavioral results. The T/NT task (a) consisted of three phases: Training, T/NT and recognition test phase. In the think condition (‘T’), participants were instructed to practice retrieval of everyday objects when being presented with a visual cue associated to the object during the training phase. In the no-think condition (‘NT’), participants were instructed to directly suppress the associated target object and to avoid any thought about it, without retrieving or focusing on alternative memories or thoughts. Memory performance in a subsequent surprise recognition test for T and NT items was compared to recognition performance for baseline (‘B’) items that were initially studied, but did not occur in the T/NT phase. (b) Item recognition memory performance showing a significant (P < 0.05) Group × Condition interaction and significant post-hoc comparisons as indicated by asterisks. Bars represent mean hit rates together with ±1 standard error of the mean and individual data points. See main text for statistical details. (c) Significant Spearman-rank correlations between suppression-induced forgetting and clinical measures of re-experiencing symptoms (PDS B) and thought suppression in everyday life (WBSI).