1Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093,
2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 …

Historically, research on forgetting has been dominated by the assumption that forgetting is
passive, reflecting decay, interference, and changes in context. This emphasis arises from …

Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined the blood
oxygen level–dependent response associated with intentional remembering and forgetting …

Reaction time (RT) was measured in response to visual detection probes embedded within
an item-method directed forgetting paradigm. In Experiment 1, study words were presented …

The ability to control how we process information by remembering that which is important
and forgetting that which is irrelevant is essential to maintain accurate, up-to-date memories …

The current meta-analysis explored whether emotional memories are less susceptible to
item-method directed forgetting than neutral memories. Basic analyses revealed superior …

Decades of research have established that the intent to remember information has no effect
on episodic long-term memory. This claim, which is routinely taught in introductory cognitive …

We investigated whether intentional forgetting impacts only the likelihood of later retrieval
from long-term memory or whether it also impacts the fidelity of those representations that …

How does the intent to remember or forget information affect working memory (WM)? To
explore this question, in four experiments, we gauged the availability of the to-be-forgotten …

Humans have the ability to intentionally forget information via different strategies, included
suppression of encoding (directed forgetting) and mental replacement of the item to encode …