Stimulation of the human medial temporal lobe between learning and recall selectively enhances forgetting

Background: Direct electrical stimulation applied to the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) typically disrupts performance on memory tasks, however, the mechanism underlying this effect is not known. Objective: To study the effects of MTL stimulation on memory performance. Methods: We studied the effe...

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Main Authors: Maxwell B. Merkow, John F. Burke, Ashwin G. Ramayya, Ashwini D. Sharan, Michael R. Sperling, Michael J. Kahana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X1630393X