Oh, Honey, I Already Forgot That : Strategic Control of Directed Forgetting in Older and Younger Adults*
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Two experiments investigated list-method directed forgetting with older and younger adults and showed that age-related differences in directed forgetting occurred because older adults were less likely than younger adults to initiate a strategy to attempt to forget.Abstract:
This article is about age-related differences in intentional forgetting of unwanted information. Imagine receiving medication and reading the directions on how to take it. Afterwards, the doctor tells you to take a different dosage at a different time from that printed on the label. Updating the directions may necessitate intentional forgetting of the earlier-learned information. The current article took one approach to examining this issue by examining age differences in the effectiveness of intentional forgetting using the popular list-method directed forgetting procedure invented by R. A. Bjork, LaBerge, and LeGrand (1968).read more
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Separable neural mechanisms support intentional forgetting and thought substitution.
Ryan J. Hubbard,Lili Sahakyan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a novel item-method directed forgetting paradigm with remember, forget, and imagine cues, and recorded EEG to directly compare these strategies and found that Forget and Imagine cues produced similar forgetting compared to Remember cues, but through separable neural processes; Forget cues elicited frontal oscillatory power changes that were predictive of future forgetting.
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Separable neural mechanisms support intentional forgetting and thought substitution
Ryan J. Hubbard,Lili Sahakyan +1 more
TL;DR: A novel item-method directed forgetting paradigm is developed with Remember, Forget, and Imagine cues, and recorded EEG to directly compare these strategies, suggesting that both strategies can lead to intentional forgetting, but directed forgetting may rely on frontally-mediated suppression, while thought substitution may lead to contextual shifting, impairing successful retrieval.
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Memory impairment in older adults' diversionary thoughts.
TL;DR: The obtained results showed the amnesic effect of diversionary thought but did not show a greater degree of forgetting when the autobiographical events in the diversionary thoughts were temporally more distant, alerts us to the importance of promoting strategies that enable older adults to better remember important information and effectively forget irrelevant information.
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Motivated forgetting reduces veridical memories but slightly increases false memories in both young and healthy older people.
Alfonso Pitarque,Encarnación Satorres,Joaquín Escudero,Salvador Algarabel,Omar Bekkers,Juan C. Meléndez +5 more
TL;DR: The results showed that when participants intended to forget the studied List 1, they were less likely to recall the studied words, but more likely to intrude the critical words.
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Binding too Much Rather than too Little: Age Differences in Attentional Control and the Implications for Associative Memory
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether older adults' reduced attentional control leads to hyperbinding or the obligatory formation of overly broad associations between events occurring in close temporal and spatial contiguity and found that older adults alone encode irrelevant co-occurrences in the environment.
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