In three experiments, we examined the memory-undermining effects of daydreaming for (un)related stimuli. In Experiments 1 and 2, we tested whether daydreaming fosters forgetting of semantically interrelated material and hence, catalyzes false memory production. In Experiment 3, we examined the memory effects of different daydreaming instructions. In Experiment 1, daydreaming did not undermine c...

To avoid thinking of unwanted memories can be a successful strategy to forget. Studying brain oscillations as measures of local and inter-regional processing, we shed light on the neural dynamics underlying memory suppression. Employing the think/no-think paradigm, 24 healthy human subjects repeatedly retrieved (think condition) or avoided thinking of (no-think condition) a previously learned t...

Instructing people to forget a list of items often leads to better recall of subsequently studied lists (known as the benefits of directed forgetting). The authors have proposed that changes in study strategy are a central cause of the benefits (L. Sahakyan & P. F. Delaney, 2003). The authors address 2 results from the literature that are inconsistent with their strategy-based explanation: (a) ...

We address the problem of term elimination in DLLite ontologies by adopting techniques from classical forgetting theory. Specifically, we generalize our previous results on forgetting in DL-Litecore TBox to forgetting in DL-Litebool KBs. We also introduce query-based forgetting, a parameterized definition of forgetting, which provides a unifying framework for defining and comparing different de...

The effect of scopolamine on the consolidation and forgetting of emotional memory has not been completely elucidated yet. The aim of the present study was to investigate the time course of scopolamine effect on consolidation and forgetting of passive avoidance response. In a first experiment of the present study, we tested the effect of scopolamine (1mg/kg, i.p., immediately after acquisition),...

This paper deals with the problem of Adaptive Noise Cancellation (ANC) when only a corrupted speech signal with an additive Gaussian white noise is available for processing. Kalman filtering is known as an effective speech enhancement technique, in which speech signal is usually modeled as autoregressive (AR) model and represented in the state-space domain. All the approaches based on the Kalma...

This work takes a historical approach to discussing Brown's (1958) paper, "Some Tests of the Decay Theory of Immediate Memory". This work was and continues to be extremely influential in the field of forgetting over the short term. Its primary importance is in establishing a theoretical basis to consider a process of fundamental importance: memory decay. Brown (1958) established that time-based...

In this paper, a new robust adaptive FIR filter algorithm with variable forgetting factor for time-varying parameters estimation in the presence of impulsive noise is discussed. The proposed algorithm is based on the robust recursive least square and parallel adaptation recursive least square algorithms combination. A scalar parameter controls the switching process between these two algorithms,...