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

Retrieving a subset of items can cause the forgetting of other items, a phenomenon referred
to as retrieval-induced forgetting. According to some theorists, retrieval-induced forgetting is …

Remembering a past experience can, surprisingly, cause forgetting. Forgetting arises when
other competing traces interfere with retrieval and inhibitory control mechanisms are …

Reminders of the past can trigger the recollection of events that one would rather forget.
Here, using fMRI, we demonstrate two distinct neural mechanisms that foster the intentional …

Remembering and forgetting reflect fundamentally interdependent processes in human
memory (Bjork, 2011). This interdependency is particularly apparent in research on retrieval …

Memory retrieval is an active process that can alter the content and accessibility of stored
memories. Of potential relevance for educational practice are findings that memory retrieval …

Selectively retrieving episodic information from a cue often induces interference from related
episodes. To promote successful retrieval of the target episode, such interference is …

When we remember a city that we have visited, we retrieve places related to finding our goal
but also non-target locations within this environment. Yet, understanding how the human …

Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied information enhances memory for the
retrieved information but causes forgetting of related, nonretrieved information. Such …

Achieving our goals often requires guiding access to relevant information from memory.
Such goal-directed retrieval requires interactions between systems supporting cognitive …