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Short Article: Memory Awareness following Episodic Inhibition

Mihály Racsmány [email protected], Martin A. Conway, Edit A. Garab, and Gábor NagymátéView all authors and affiliations

Volume 61, Issue 4

https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701728750

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Three experiments used directed forgetting (DF) and retrieval practice (RP) to investigate the relation of inhibited items to states of memory awareness occurring at test. In Experiment 1 using list DF robust inhibitory effects were present in cued recall, but in a recognition test these effects were only present in responses accompanied by recollective experience. In Experiments 2 and 3 using RP reliable effects of inhibition were found but these did not relate systematically to states of memory awareness. It is suggested that in DF the to-be-forgotten items are tagged at study as not to be recollectively experienced and so have a specific, inhibitory, relation to states of recollective experience occurring during test. In RP no tagging takes place, and inhibition is automatic or nonintentional and consequently does not have a specific relation to states of memory awareness at test.

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Article first published online: April 1, 2008

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Mihály Racsmány

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Martin A. Conway

Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Edit A. Garab

Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

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Gábor Nagymáté

Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

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Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Stoczek u. 2., Budapest, 1111, Hungary. E-mail: [email protected]

Financial support for the research was provided by OTKA (Hungarian National Science Foundation) 49 840-T53 and K68463. Martin A. Conway is supported by a Professorial Fellowship, RES–051–27–0127, from the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain. Mihály Racsmány is grantee of the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

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