Let me give you something to think about: Does needing to remember something new make it easier to forget something old?

A Pandey, N Michaud, J Ivanoff, T Taylor - Consciousness and Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
In an item-method directed forgetting task, memory instructions presumably operate by
promoting further rehearsal of to-be-remembered (TBR) items and limiting encoding of to-be …

A computational model of item-based directed forgetting.

JN Reid, RK Jamieson - Canadian Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Montagliani et Hockley (2019) ont présenté des preuves que l'oubli dirigé par la méthode
des items entraîne non seulement une moins bonne reconnaissance des cibles avec indice …

Better source memory for remembered to-be-forgotten items than for remembered to-be-remembered items.

VL Ott, JM Höhs, J Rummel - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
When participants study items one-by-one and are directed to either remember or forget the
respective item directly after its presentation, retention of to-be-forgotten items is regularly …

Item-method directed forgetting and perceived truth of news headlines

M Abel, KHT Bäuml - Memory, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research on item-method directed forgetting (IMDF) suggests that memories can be
voluntarily forgotten. IMDF is however usually examined with relatively simple study …

Source reinstatement in item-method directed forgetting influences recognition strategies.

KL Hourihan - … of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Dans le cas de l'oubli dirigé par la méthode des items, les participants étudient des items
jumelés à des instructions leur demandant de mémoriser ou d'oublier chaque item en vue …

Intentional Forgetting: The Role of Retrieval in Encoding

P Tan - 2024 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Intentional remembering and intentional forgetting are adaptive processes that permit us to
exert control over the contents of our memories. These abilities ensure that memory …