“…First, in the experiment just described, the elimination of the opportunity to ruminate also eliminated the impairment in controlled use of memory (Hertel, 1998); capacity Depression and Memory 67 accounts rarely permit this degree of flexibility. Second, a deficit has been found on the simple task of perceptual identification (Hertel, 1994), and the condition of initial exposure that produced the deficit was the less resource-demanding task: the task of rating curvature, not the task of rating emotionality. Third is evidence that external control can sometimes compensate for deficiencies in less-structured situations, even when the task is resource-intensive (Hertel & Hardin, 1990;Hertel & Rude, 1991a,b).…”