title: Forgetting "Novel" but Not "Dragon": The Role of Age of Acquisition on Intentional and Incidental Forgetting.
abstract: Two experiments studied how the age at which words are acquired (Age of Acquisition, AoA) modulates forgetting. Experiment 1 employed the retrieval-practice paradigm to test the effect of AoA on the incidental forgetting that emerges after solving competition during retrieval (i.e., retrieval-induced forgetting, RIF). Standard RIF appeared with late-acquired words, but this effect disappeared with early-acquired words. Experiment 2 evaluated the effect of AoA on intentional forgetting by employing the list-method directed forgetting paradigm. Results showed a standard directed forgetting effect only when the to-be-forgotten words were late-acquired words. These findings point to the prominent role of AoA in forgetting processes.
authors.affiliation: University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marful
authors.affiliation: University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gómez-Ariza
authors.affiliation: International University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
authors.forename: Analía
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barbón
authors.affiliation: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bajo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D020324:Amnesia, Anterograde / Q000523:psychology*; D000648:Amnesia, Retrograde / Q000523:psychology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult