Aslan, Alp and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz T. (2011) Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Predict Retrieval-Induced Forgetting. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 37 (1). pp. 264-269. ISSN 0278-7393,
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Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied information enhances memory for the retrieved information but causes forgetting of related, nonretrieved information. Such retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) has often been attributed to inhibitory executive-control processes that supposedly suppress the nonretrieved items' memory representation. Here, we examined the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in young adults' RIF. WMC was assessed by means of the operation span task. Results revealed a positive relationship between WMC and RIF, with high-WMC individuals showing more RIF than low-WMC individuals. In contrast, individuals showed enhanced memory for retrieved information regardless of WMC. The results are consistent with previous individual-differences work that suggests a close link between WMC and inhibitory efficiency. In particular, the finding supports the inhibitory executive-control account of RIF.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LONG-TERM-MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; INHIBITORY PROCESSES; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; EXECUTIVE CONTROL; ITEM RECOGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; INTERFERENCE; ATTENTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; episodic memory; retrieval-induced forgetting; working memory capacity; individual differences; inhibition |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie IV (Entwicklungs- und Kognitionspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Bäuml |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2020 05:34 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2020 05:34 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/21613 |
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