Over the past century, psychologists have discussed whether forgetting might arise from
active mechanisms that promote memory loss to achieve various functions, such as …

Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend
thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Highlights•Right lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in inhibitory control.•Recent
advances suggest that rIFG may not just be involved in motoric inhibition.•Rather rIFG may …

In recent years bilingualism has been linked to both advantages in executive control and
positive impacts on aging. Such positive cognitive effects of bilingualism have been …

The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not
at all implausible. After all, what could make us who we are if not the things we have …

It is well known that information that is initially thought to be correct but then revealed to be
false, often continues to influence human judgement and decision making despite people …

Intrusive memories are a common feature of many psychopathologies, and suppression-
induced forgetting of unwanted memories appears as a critical ability to preserve mental …

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

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 …