Over the past century, psychologists have discussed whether forgetting might arise from
active mechanisms that promote memory loss to achieve various functions, such as …

Episodic memory deficits are consistently documented as a core aspect of cognitive
dysfunction in schizophrenia patients, present from the onset of the illness and strongly …

Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend
thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that …

This article introduces a new computational model for the complex-span task, the most
popular task for studying working memory. SOB-CS is a two-layer neural network that …

What happens to goal‐relevant information in working memory after it is no longer needed?
Here, we review evidence for a selective removal process that operates on outdated …

Historically, research on forgetting has been dominated by the assumption that forgetting is
passive, reflecting decay, interference, and changes in context. This emphasis arises from …

Forgetting is often considered a fundamental cognitive failure, reflecting the undesirable and
potentially embarrassing inability to retrieve a sought-after experience or fact. For this …

Previous research has claimed that working memory (WM) updating is one of three primary
central executive processes, and the only one to reliably predict fluid intelligence. However …

The ability to keep working memory content up to date is vital for a number of higher
cognitive functions such as navigation and reasoning, but it is also crucial for the effective …

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 …