Evidence against associative blocking as a cause of cue-independent retrieval-induced forgetting

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-21

  Hulbert, Justin C ^a,b   Shivde, Geeta ^c   Anderson, Michael C ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative blocking; Cognitive control; Covert cueing; Cue independence; Inhibition; Memory; Retrieval specificity; Retrieval induced forgetting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857250091     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000120     Document Type: Article

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