The representational consequences of intentional forgetting: Impairments to both the probability and fidelity of long-term memory.

ABSTRACT: We investigated whether intentional forgetting impacts only the likelihood of later retrieval from long-term memory or whether it also impacts the fidelity of those representations that are successfully retrieved. We accomplished this by combining an item-method directed forgetting task with a testing procedure and modeling approach inspired by the delayed-estimation paradigm used in the study of visual short-term memory (STM). Abstract or concrete colored images were each followed by a remember (R) or forget (F) instruction and sometimes by a visual probe requiring a speeded detection response (E1-E3). Memory was tested using an old-new (E1-E2) or remember-know-no (E3) recognition task followed by a continuous color judgment task (E2-E3); a final experiment included only the color judgmen

SUBMITTER: Fawcett JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4694085 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature