Selective cues to forget can fail to cause forgetting

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-36

  Storm, Benjamin C ^a   Koppel, Rebecca H ^b   Wilson, Brittany M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Context change; Directed forgetting; Inhibition; Retrieval induced forgetting; Selective rehearsal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTENTION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872610365     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.753923     Document Type: Article

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