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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > forgetting > incidental forgetting > retrieval-induced forgetting

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retrieval-induced forgetting  

Definition(s)

  • Phenomenon showing that the selective retrieval of information can lead to the forgetting of related information.

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  • RIF
  • WI-RIF

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  • • Anderson, M. C. (2003). Rethinking interference theory: Executive control and the mechanisms of forgetting. Journal of Memory and Language, 49(4), 415–445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2003.08.006

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Anderson, M. C., Bjork, R. A., & Bjork, E. L. (1994). Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20(5), 1063–1087. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.20.5.1063

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Bekinschtein, P., Weisstaub, N. V., Gallo, F., Renner, M., & Anderson, M. C. (2018). A retrieval-specific mechanism of adaptive forgetting in the mammalian brain. Nature Communications, 9(1), 4660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07128-7

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Levy, B. (2002). Inhibitory processes and the control of memory retrieval. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(7), 299–305. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01923-X

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Murayama, K., Miyatsu, T., Buchli, D., & Storm, B. C. (2014). Forgetting as a consequence of retrieval: A meta-analytic review of retrieval-induced forgetting. Psychological Bulletin, 140(5), 1383–1409. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037505

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
  • • Pica, G., Chernikova, M., Pierro, A., Giannini, A. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2018). Retrieval-induced forgetting as motivated cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02030

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Potter, K. W., Huszar, L. D., & Huber, D. E. (2018). Does inhibition cause forgetting after selective retrieval? A reanalysis and failure to replicate. Cortex, 104, 26‑45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.026

    [Study type: empirical study, replication / Access: closed]
  • • Rowland, C. A., Bates, L. E., & DeLosh, E. L. (2014). On the reliability of retrieval-induced forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01343

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Storm, B., Angello, G., Buchli, D., Little, J., & Nestojko, J. (2015). A review of retrieval-induced forgetting in the contexts of learning, eyewitness memory, social cognition, autobiographical memory, and creative cognition. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation—Advances in Research and Theory (Vol. 62, pp. 141–194). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2014.09.005

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  • • Verde, M. F. (2012). Retrieval-induced forgetting and inhibition: A critical review. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 56, p. 47–80). New-York: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-394393-4.00002-9

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  • • Verde, M. F. (2013). Retrieval-induced forgetting in recall: Competitor interference revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(5), 1433–1448. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032975

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Wimber, M., Alink, A., Charest, I., Kriegeskorte, N., & Anderson, M. C. (2015). Retrieval induces adaptive forgetting of competing memories via cortical pattern suppression. Nature Neuroscience, 18(4), 582‑589. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3973

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Wu, J. Q., Peters, G. J., Rittner, P., Cleland, T. A., & Smith, D. M. (2014). The hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and selective memory retrieval : Evidence from a rodent model of the retrieval-induced forgetting effec. Hippocampus, 24(9), 1070‑1080. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22291

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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Editorial note

  • A retrieval-induced forgetting experiment includes the following phases (Anderson et al., 1994). Participants first study, for example, word pairs, each consisting of the noun and an exemplar of a semantic category (examples: “Fruits-Orange“ “Fruits-Apple“, “Drinks-Whisky“). After the study phase, participants are asked to remember half of the exemplars from half of the categories (retrieval practice phase). To do this, they are presented with the name of a category and the first two letters of a choice of exemplars ("Orange", but not "Apple", for example), three times each. After a distraction task, participants are asked to remember all studied words, with the category name still serving as a cue. The final recall thus concerns three types of exemplars: those reviewed in the practiced categories in the second phase of the experiment (Rp+ items, such as "Fruits-Orange"), those associated with the practiced categories but without the benefit of additional retrieval trials (Rp-, such as "Fruits-Apple"), and finally those associated with the unpracticed categories presented only once during the study phase (Nrp, for example, "Drinks-Whisky). The results indicate that participants recall Rp+ words ("Orange") significantly better than the Nrp words ("Whisky"). The latter were recalled even better than Rp- words ("Apple").

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