Emotional memories are (usually) harder to forget: A meta-analysis of the item-method directed forgetting literature

KJ Hall, EJ Fawcett, KL Hourihan… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2021 - Springer
The current meta-analysis explored whether emotional memories are less susceptible to
item-method directed forgetting than neutral memories. Basic analyses revealed superior …

The representational consequences of intentional forgetting: Impairments to both the probability and fidelity of long-term memory.

JM Fawcett, MA Lawrence, TL Taylor - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Influence of reward motivation on directed forgetting in younger and older adults

HJ Bowen, SN Gallant, DH Moon - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
An important feature of the memory system is the ability to forget, but aging is associated
with declines in the ability to intentionally forget potentially due to declines in cognitive …

Examining the effects of emotional valence and arousal on source memory: A meta-analysis of behavioral evidence.

DR Pereira, AC Teixeira-Santos, A Sampaio… - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The current meta-analysis examined the effects of valence and arousal on source memory
accuracy, including the identification of variables that moderate the magnitude and direction …

How do word frequency and memory task influence directed forgetting: An ERP study

J Ye, A Nie, S Liu - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2019 - Elsevier
In daily life, it is important either to remember sometimes or to intentionally forget on other
occasions. The issue of forgetting following instructions (ie directed forgetting, DF) has been …

Decomposing item-method directed forgetting of emotional pictures: Equivalent costs and no benefits

TL Taylor, CK Quinlan, KCH Vullings - Memory & Cognition, 2018 - Springer
Using an item-method directed forgetting task, we presented negative, neutral, and positive
photographic pictures, one at a time, each followed by an instruction to remember or forget …

Neural modulation of directed forgetting by valence and arousal: An event-related potential study

SN Gallant, BJ Dyson - Brain Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Intentional forgetting benefits memory by removing no longer needed information and
promoting processing of more relevant materials. This study sought to understand how the …

Aging and directed forgetting: Evidence for an associative deficit but no evidence for an inhibition deficit.

P Tanberg, MA Fernandes… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
L'oubli intentionnel vise à empêcher que l'information non désirée soit stockée dans la
mémoire à long terme. Étonnamment, des recherches antérieures ont montré que …

Modeling semantic emotion space using a 3D hypercube-projection: An innovative analytical approach for the psychology of emotions

R Trnka, A Lačev, K Balcar, M Kuška… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The widely accepted two-dimensional circumplex model of emotions posits that most
instances of human emotional experience can be understood within the two general …

Interactions of emotion and self-reference in source memory: An ERP study

DR Pereira, A Sampaio, AP Pinheiro - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2021 - Springer
The way emotional information is encoded (eg, deciding whether it is self-related or not) has
been found to affect source memory. However, few studies have addressed how the …