The Disruption and Dissolution of Directed Forgetting: Inhibitory Control of Memory

Conway, Martin; Harries, Kay; Noyes, Jan; Racsmány, Mihály; Frankish, Clive

doi:10.1006/jmla.2000.2706

Cited by 130 publications

(160 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

145

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This position predicts the benefits for the forget group under circumstances permitting sufficient accumulation of PI in the remember group. However, with shorter or categorical lists, PI accumulates more slowly, which could explain why the benefits are sometimes relatively small (in comparison with the costs)-or even absent (Conway, Harries, Noyes, Racsma'ny, & Frankish, 2000). Published studies on directed forgetting employing lists of 12 items or fewer have not consistently shown benefits, whereas studies with longer lists (15 or more items) typically have reported reliable benefits.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destructive effects of “forget” instructions

Sahakyan

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In two experiments, participants were given three lists of words to study and were told to (1) remember all three lists, (2) forget the first list immediately after studying it but try to remember the other two lists, or (3) forget the middle list immediately after studying it but try to remember the first and the last lists. In Experiment 1, unrelated word lists were used, whereas Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 with categorical lists. The results from both experiments showed that forgetting the middle list leads also to recall decrement for the first list, which was not intended for forgetting. The results are discussed in terms of the contextual change hypothesis of directed forgetting.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Destructive effects of “forget” instructions

Sahakyan

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Indeed, a dominant hypothesis to explain the cognitive changes associated with normal aging is that the cognitive resources available to perform mental operations decrease with age (Park & Hedden, 2001). Since intentional inhibitory control of memory can be considered to place a high demand on attentional resources (see, for example, Conway, Harries, Noyes, Racsma'ny, & Frankish, 2000, experiments 2, 3, and 4), we expected that elderly subjects' inhibitory performance would be reduced (in comparison to that of young subjects) in the three memory tasks requiring intentional suppression of some information, but that the two groups would perform similarly on tasks requiring unintentional inhibitory processes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inhibitory control of memory in normal ageing: Dissociation between impaired intentional and preserved unintentional processes

Collette

Germain

Hogge

et al. 2009

Memory

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of elderly and young participants on a series of memory tasks involving either intentional or unintentional inhibitory control of memory content. Intentional inhibition processes in working and episodic memory were explored with directed forgetting tasks and in semantic memory with the Hayling task. Unintentional inhibitory processes in working memory, long-term memory and semantic memory were explored with an interference resolution task, the retrieval practice paradigm and the flanker task, respectively. The results indicate that elderly subjects' performance on the two directed forgetting tasks and the Hayling task is lower than that of young ones, and that this impairment is not related to their initial memory capacity. This suggests that there is a specific dysfunction affecting intentional inhibitory control of memory contents in normal aging.

show abstract

“…Following the inefficient inhibition hypothesis, it might be tempting to argue that young children have poor retrieval inhibition in general and that they should show not only poor directed forgetting, but poor retrievalinduced forgetting as well. In fact, because the two forms of inhibition appear to share a similar goal-facilitating the retrieval of relevant material by avoiding the interference of irrelevant material-and show other parallels as well (E. L. Bjork, R. A. Bjork, & M. C. Anderson, 1998;Conway, Harries, Noyes, Racsma'ny, & Frankish, 2000), they might become efficient at around the same age. Then, young children, such as first and third graders, should have problems in suppressing the interfering material during retrieval practice and, as a result, retrieval-induced forgetting, like directed forgetting, should be reduced.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, directed forgetting occurs with intentional effort and is dependent on conscious control. It has been found to require a high amount of attentional capacity and to be reduced, or even eliminated, if a secondary task is introduced (Conway et al, 2000;Macrae, Bodenhausen, Milne, & Ford, 1997). This pattern suggests that directed forgetting depends to a large extent on controlled processes.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intact retrieval inhibition in children’s episodic recall

Zellner

Bäuml

2005

Memory & Cognition

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Young children are assumed to be inefficient inhibitors in a number of cognitive tasks. In two experiments, we examined whether such deficits extend to children's episodic recall. We used two inhibition paradigms: retrieval-induced forgetting, the detrimental effect of retrieval practice with a subset of learned items on recall of the unpracticed items, and part-list cuing, the detrimental effect of the presentation of a subset of learned items on recall of the remaining items. In both experiments, the inhibitory effects were compared across three age groups: first or second graders, fourth graders, and young adults. The two children groups showed the same amounts of retrieval-induced forgetting and part-list cuing as the adult group, pointing to intact retrieval inhibition in young children's episodic recall. These results parallel very recent results on older adults' episodic recall, suggesting that both retrieval-induced forgetting and part-list cuing develop early in life and remain intact for the greater part of the lifespan.

show abstract

The Disruption and Dissolution of Directed Forgetting: Inhibitory Control of Memory

Cited by 130 publications

References 31 publications

Destructive effects of “forget” instructions

Destructive effects of “forget” instructions

Inhibitory control of memory in normal ageing: Dissociation between impaired intentional and preserved unintentional processes

Intact retrieval inhibition in children’s episodic recall

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About