title: Retrieval-induced forgetting and interference between cues: training a cue-outcome association attenuates retrieval by alternative cues.
abstract: Some researchers have attempted to determine whether situations in which a single cue is paired with several outcomes (A-B, A-C interference or interference between outcomes) involve the same learning and retrieval mechanisms as situations in which several cues are paired with a single outcome (A-B, C-B interference or interference between cues). Interestingly, current research on a related effect, which is known as retrieval-induced forgetting, can illuminate this debate. Most retrieval-induced forgetting experiments are based on an experimental design that closely resembles the A-B, A-C interference paradigm. In the present experiment, we found that a similar effect may be observed when items are rearranged such that the general structure of the task more closely resembles the A-B, C-B interference paradigm. This result suggests that, as claimed by other researchers in the area of contingency learning, the two types of interference, namely A-B, A-C and A-B, C-B interference, may share some basic mechanisms. Moreover, the type of inhibitory processes assumed to underlie retrieval-induced forgetting may also play a role in these phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Nerea
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ortega-Castro
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Vadillo
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001245:Association Learning; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult