Remembering can cause inhibition: retrieval-induced inhibition as cue independent process.
Previous experiments have mostly relied on recall as a dependent measure to assess whether retrieval of information from memory causes inhibition of related information. This study aimed to measure this inhibition in a more direct way. In Experiment 1, it was shown that repeated retrieval of exemplars from a category resulted in longer recognition latencies to nonretrieved exemplars from that same category, compared with recognition latencies to control exemplars. Experiment 2 obtained the same pattern of results using a lexical decision task. This was the 1st time that retrieval-induced forgetting was demonstrated on an implicit test of memory. To exclude noninhibitory explanations of the data, the exemplars were presented in both experiments without their categories as cues.
Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. H.Veling@psych.kun.nl
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D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011930:Reaction Time; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology