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

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) refers to the finding that retrieving a memory can impair
subsequent recall of related memories. Here, the authors present a new model of how the …

Retrieving information from long-term memory can lead people to forget previously irrelevant
related information. Some researchers have proposed that this retrieval-induced forgetting …

Inhibitory control is a fundamental process that enables suppression of representations or
processes that interfere with ongoing cognition and behavior. This chapter reviews the role …

Retrieving information from memory can cause the forgetting of other information in memory,
a phenomenon referred to as retrieval-induced forgetting. Over the past 20 years, retrieval …

The influence of classic interference theories on contemporary thinking about recall is
embodied in the principle of competitor interference, which suggests that forgetting is a …

Although memory inhibition seems to underlie retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF), there is
some controversy about the precise nature of this effect. Because normal RIF is observed in …

Interference from competing material at retrieval is a major cause of memory failure. We
tested the hypothesis that such interference can be overcome by suppressing competing …