I've been waiting for this paper to drop for some time! I'm super glad to see it finally appear! Congratulations Mick! Looking forward to the final version.

Blimey!

sounds cool! I wonder, though, what to make of this in relation to the idea that prediction error enhances memory? E.g., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

thanks...i can see it now. But still can't save a pdf on my machine....it's restricted.

Sadly, I am blocked by a Paywall...I guess the University of Cambridge doesn't get this journal? Any other way I can get it?

Thanks for sending this!

This sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing your paper. Do you have any papers on the grid world approach you are taking (sorry if I should know about this). Demonstrating the consequences of intrusive thinking computationally is important and useful, and I know of no other similar work.

You raise a fair point which the data cannot address. Overall perf. levels on recall were similar across groups, but episodic memory ability need not equate to cognitive control ability. Causal manipulations of control training needed. Only thing that comes close is www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Incidentally, college students with a greater childhood history of traumatic experiences show greater suppression-induced forgetting than those who have no such history, according to Justin Hulbert & Mike Anderson (see our JEP G paper from 2018 or so).

Can you explain what you mean by "did better"? And regarding the latter point, do you mean that replaying negative events essentially provides an opportunity to learn control behaviours? (not quite sure what you meant).

If intrusive thoughts warp cognitive maps in PTSD, does inhibitory control "unwarp them" or at least prevent warping? It would be interesting to see what the impact of control would be. BTW...apropros inhibitory control and intrusive thoughts, see our recent paper. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I'm not sure BlueSky is declining...perhaps I missed the discussion that led up to this. For example, this Times Higher Ed piece suggests it is doing well, as far as Science is concerned. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...

We hope that our integrative review of retrieval stopping will lay the groundwork for further advances in addressing the distress of intrusive thinking.

The participants produced an important volume on this subject that lays out the mission of addressing intrusive thoughts and its importance, from diverse perspetives.
esforum.de/publications...

Addressing intrusive thinking is a vital mission in clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. Several years ago, 40 scientists from around the world gathered in an Ernst Strugman forum on Intrusive thinking, organised by Peter Kalivas and
‪@mpwpaulus.bsky.social‬ and facilitated by Julia Lupp.

Research on inhibitory control over memory provides a rich neurocognitive framework through which to understand disordered thought control.More broadly, it complements response inhibition as a tool for understanding the control of action and thought.

Fundamentally, if neuroscience is going to inform how unwanted thoughts are controlled by the brain and address central features of psychiatric disorders, a theoretically valid construct and set of tools for measuring that construct are needed.

We also discuss the idea that affective stopping engages the same domain general prefrontal components as retrieval stopping, providing an account of fear extinction's benefits. @stevemaren.bsky.social en.bsky.social‬ ï¿Â½ï¿½ joeydunsmoor.bsky.sococial @thephelpslab.bsky.social

These benefits of thought suppression contradict clinical wisdom about the inadvisability of thought suppression. Yet, they are consistent with the (also popular) notion that inhibitory control is fundamental to coping with perseverative thoughts and with resilience broadly. lir-mainz.de/en/home