Forgetting is a feature, not a bug: intentionally forgetting some things helps us remember others by freeing up working memory resources

In the present study, we used an item-method directed-forgetting paradigm to test whether instructions to forget or remember one item affect memory for subsequently studied items. In two experiments (Ns = 138 and 33, respectively), recall was higher when a word pair was preceded during study by a to...

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Hauptverfasser: Popov, Vencislav (VerfasserIn) , Rummel, Jan (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: July 30, 2019
In: Psychological science
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 30, Heft: 9, Pages: 1303-1317
ISSN:1467-9280
DOI:10.1177/0956797619859531
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Verfasserangaben:Vencislav Popov, Ivan Marevic, Jan Rummel, and Lynne M. Reder

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