The title of the article I chose to write about is “Memory Suppression May Help People “Unlearn” Behavioral Responses, But Only for non-emotional memories. » The goal of the research article was to examine whether using memory suppression can help individuals train their brains to forget the behavioral responses associated with intrusive thoughts. I found this article interesting to read because I think it is a motivating concept to be able to remove unwanted memories from the brain that could cause individual mental agony. On a deeper level, I think it's an interesting idea to be able to train your brain to do such an amazing and beneficial mental practice. The Literature Review section of this article explains previous research used to teach participants to exclude unwanted memories from their minds by eliminating awareness of the memories using what is known as the think/no-think (TNT) paradigm. . Two hypotheses were presented in this study. The first aimed to determine whether retaining unwanted memories would curb an individual's behavioral actions that followed a memory. The second hypothesis explored the effects of unwanted emotions. The researchers asked participants to complete three parts of the experiment: the learning phase, the TNT phase, and the final memory phase. During the learning phase, participants were presented with forty-eight pairs of object images and asked to recall them. Participants were asked to learn a behavioral response for each item. Participants were then shown one of forty-eight objects and asked to press a key indicating left or right depending on the strength of the associated image. After this, participants then saw the correct matching image for two seconds as a response. ...... middle of paper ...... active therapy and some mental exercises. Although the results of this study do not support that memories triggered by an emotional response were behaviorally suppressed during the experiment, I believe this study sets a good foundation to lead to this useful solution for many people suffering from intrusive thoughts. I think a first step would be to interview a larger number of participants and see if there is a way to improve the experiment to perhaps add the ability to suppress the behavioral response to emotional memories, thus helping to eliminate some stress in those who suffer from intrusive thoughts due to cognitive disorders. References Sakaki, M., Kuhbandner, C., Mather, M. and Pekrun, R. (2014). Memory suppression can help people “unlearn” behavioral responses, but only for non-emotional memories. Bulletin and psychonomic review, 21(1), 136-141.