title: Memory awareness following episodic inhibition.
abstract: Three experiments used directed forgetting (DF) and retrieval practice (RP) to investigate the relation of inhibited items to states of memory awareness occurring at test. In Experiment 1 using list DF robust inhibitory effects were present in cued recall, but in a recognition test these effects were only present in responses accompanied by recollective experience. In Experiments 2 and 3 using RP reliable effects of inhibition were found but these did not relate systematically to states of memory awareness. It is suggested that in DF the to-be-forgotten items are tagged at study as not to be recollectively experienced and so have a specific, inhibitory, relation to states of recollective experience occurring during test. In RP no tagging takes place, and inhibition is automatic or nonintentional and consequently does not have a specific relation to states of memory awareness at test.
authors.affiliation: Research Group on Cognitive Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary. racsmany@cogsci.bme.hu
authors.forename: Mihály
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Racsmány
authors.forename: Martin A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Conway
authors.forename: Edit A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Garab
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nagymáté
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D011930:Reaction Time