Inhibitory control is a fundamental process that enables suppression of representations or
processes that interfere with ongoing cognition and behavior. This chapter reviews the role …

Forgetting can result from passive or active processes. Active forgetting includes
purposefully trying to forget or retrieve competing information. Knowledge about active …

Advocates of the arts agree that the K‐12 curriculum should include dedicated time for arts
instruction. Some have argued further that knowledge and skills acquired through the arts …

Strong evidence suggests that memory for emotional information is much better than for
neutral one. Thus, one may expect that forgetting of emotional information is difficult and …

Human memory is dynamic and flexible but is also susceptible to distortions arising from
adaptive as well as pathological processes. Both accurate and false memory formation …

We investigated whether intentional forgetting impacts only the likelihood of later retrieval
from long-term memory or whether it also impacts the fidelity of those representations that …

Studies examining the beneficial effect of testing on memory have relied almost exclusively
on verbal materials. Whether testing can improve the learning of novel, abstract visuospatial …

In the present study, we examined whether note-taking as a memory aid may provide a
naturalistic example of intentional forgetting. In the first experiment, participants played …

We combined an item-method directed forgetting paradigm with a secondary task requiring
a response to discriminate the color of probe words presented 1400ms, 1800ms or 2600ms …

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 …