Memory awareness following episodic inhibition

作者：Racsmany Mihaly^*; Conway Martin A; Garab Edit A; Nagymate Gabor

来源：Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2008, 61(4): 525-534.

DOI：10.1080/17470210701728750

• directed forgetting
• selective practice
• episodic memory
• recollective experience
• retrieval inhibition

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.

• 出版日期2008-4