The memory literature has identified interference and inhibition as two major sources of forgetting. While interference is generally considered to be a passive cause of forgetting arising from exposure to additional information that impedes subsequent recall of target information, inhibition concerns a more active and goal-directed cause of forgetting that can be achieved intentionally. Over the past 25 years, our knowledge of the neural mechanisms underlying both interference-induced and inhibition-induced forgetting has expanded substantially. The present paper gives a critical overview of this research, pointing out empirical gaps in the current work and providing suggestions for future studies.

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干扰和抑制的机制：当前行为和神经影像研究回顾

记忆文献已将干扰和抑制确定为遗忘的两个主要来源。虽然干扰通常被认为是由于接触额外信息而阻碍随后回忆目标信息而产生的被动遗忘原因，但抑制涉及可以有意实现的更主动和目标导向的遗忘原因。在过去的 25 年里，我们对干扰引起的遗忘和抑制引起的遗忘的神经机制的了解有了很大的扩展。本文对这项研究进行了批判性概述，指出了当前工作中的实证差距，并为未来的研究提供了建议。