An interference account of cue-independent forgetting in the no-think paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Memory suppression is investigated with the no-think paradigm, which produces forgetting following repeated practice of not thinking about a memory [Anderson MC, Green C (2001) Nature 410:366-369]. Because the forgotten item is not retrieved even when tested with an independent, semantically related cue, it has been assumed that this forgetting is due to an inhibition process. However, this conclusion is based on a single stage to recall, whereas global memory models, which produce forgetting through a process of interference, include both a sampling and a recovery stage to recall. By assuming that interference exists during recovery, these models can explain cue-independent forgetting. We tested several predictions of this interference explanation of cue-independent forgetting by modifyin

SUBMITTER: Tomlinson TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747165 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature