Aslan, Alp and Baeuml, Karl-Heinz and Pastoetter, Bernhard (2007) No inhibitory deficit in older adults' episodic memory. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 18 (1). pp. 72-78. ISSN 0956-7976,
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Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied material can cause forgetting of the unpracticed material. Such retrieval-induced forgetting is attributed to an inhibitory mechanism recruited to resolve interference among competing items. According to the inhibition-deficit hypothesis, older people experience a specific decline in inhibitory function and thus should show reduced retrieval-induced forgetting. However, the results of the two experiments reported here show the same amount of retrieval-induced forgetting in younger and older adults. These results indicate that retrieval inhibition is intact in older adults' episodic recall. The findings suggest that the common view of a general inhibitory deficit in older adults needs to be updated and that older adults show intact inhibition in some cognitive tasks and deficient inhibition in others.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RETRIEVAL; RECALL; LIST; ITEM; AGE; INTERFERENCE; PERFORMANCE; MECHANISMS; |
| 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: | 14 Jan 2021 07:12 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2021 07:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/33594 |
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