Work

On the Cost and Benefit of Taking it out of Context: Modeling the Inhibition Associated with Directed Forgetting

Year: 2006

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Forgetting can occur as the result of unconscious or automatic memory processes or as the result of conscious control. The later form of forgetting is often referred to as suppression, repression, or inhibition, and it is investigated in the laboratory using the directed forgetting procedure. The authors describe and empirically test the first formal model of directed forgetting, implemented within the framework of the Search of Association Memory Theory (SAM). The critical assumption is that episodic memory can be suppressed by a conscious attempt to alter the mental context in which new memories are encoded. The present model accounts for both veridical and erroneous free recall performance. Directed Forgetting

Source: Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)

Authors: Kenneth J. Malmberg, Melissa Lehman, Lili Sahakyan

Language: English

Topic: Memory Processes and Influences

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W67497986

FWCI: 1.59

Cites: 11

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10