Schlichting, Andreas and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2017) Brief wakeful resting can eliminate directed forgetting. MEMORY, 25 (2). pp. 254-260. ISSN 0965-8211, 1464-0686
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When cued to intentionally forget previously encoded memories, participants typically show reduced recall of the memories on a later recall test. We examined how such directed forgetting is affected by a brief period of wakeful resting between encoding and test. Encoding was followed by a passive wakeful resting period in which subjects heard emotionally neutral music or perceived neutral pictures, or it was followed by an active distraction period in which subjects were engaged in counting or calculation tasks. Whereas typical directed forgetting was present after active distraction, the forgetting was absent after wakeful resting. The findings indicate that the degree to which people can intentionally forget memories is influenced by the cognitive activity that people engage in shortly after learning takes place. The results provide first evidence on the interplay between wakeful resting and intentional forgetting.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LIST-METHOD; EMOTIONAL WORDS; CHANGE ACCOUNT; MEMORY; SLEEP; INTERFERENCE; INHIBITION; RETRIEVAL; RECALL; CONSOLIDATION; Episodic memory; directed forgetting; wakeful resting; reactivation |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 12:58 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2019 13:51 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/119 |
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