Intentional forgetting reduces color-naming interference: Evidence from item-method directed forgetting

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 220-236

  Lee, Yuh Shiow ^a   Lee, Huang Mou ^a   Fawcett, Jonathan M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intentional forgetting; Perceptual inhibition; Selective rehearsal; Semantic inhibition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NAMES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84875552785     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028905     Document Type: Article

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