Retrieving an item or set of items from memory can cause the forgetting of other related items in memory; a phenomenon known as retrieval-induced forgetting. According to the inhibitory account of retrieval-induced forgetting, in searching for a particular item, other items that are related but incorrect can vie for access. Inhibition functions to decrease the accessibility of such interfering ...

Retrieving a subset of items can cause the forgetting of other items, a phenomenon referred to as retrieval-induced forgetting. According to some theorists, retrieval-induced forgetting is the consequence of an inhibitory mechanism that acts to reduce the accessibility of nontarget items that interfere with the retrieval of target items. Other theorists argue that inhibition is unnecessary to a...

The study of forgetting for reasoning has attracted considerable attention in AI. However, much of the work on forgetting, and other related approaches such as independence, irrelevance and novelty, has been restricted to the classical logics. This paper describes a detailed theoretical investigation of the notion of forgetting in the context of logic programming. We first provide a semantic de...

Ad M. M versit E-ma similar forgetting rates for both implicit and explicit instructions. The current study evaluated forgetting for implicit and explicit word-fragment completion. In Experiment 1, forgetting rates were compared for implicit and explicit task performance. Forgetting rates did not differ significantly between the two tasks. In Experiment 2, conscious and automatic memory estimat...

Are Mental Blocks Forgotten During Creative Problem Solving Due to Inhibitory Control? (August 2011) Genna Marie Angello, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Steven M. Smith Attempting to retrieve a target from memory via a retrieval cue can cause competition from the cue’s associates, which might block the target. A 1994 study by Anderson, Bjork, and Bj...

BACKGROUND Selectively testing parts of learned materials can impair later memory for nontested materials. Research has shown that such retrieval-induced forgetting occurs for low-integrated materials but may be prevented for high-integrated materials. However, previous research has neglected one factor that is ubiquitous in real-life testing: affective state. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS W...

Forgetting is a common phenomenon in everyday life. Although it often has negative connotations, forgetting is an important adaptive mechanism to avoid loading the memory storage with irrelevant information. A very important aspect of forgetting is its interaction with emotion. Affective events are often granted special and priority treatment over neutral ones with regards to memory storage. As...

The literature on directed forgetting has employed exclusively visual words. Thus, the potentially interesting aspects of a spoken utterance, which include not only vocal cues (e.g., prosody) but also the speaker and the listener, have been neglected. This study demonstrates that prosody alone does not influence directed-forgetting effects, while the sex of the speaker and the listener signific...

and the seminar participants at the Business Economics Seminar Series at University of Toronto for their useful comments. The usual disclaimer applies. ABSTRACT We propose a structural model to investigate the impact of forgetting on consumers' brand choice decisions in frequently purchased products. Forgetting results in consumers imperfectly recalling their prior brand evaluations when making...