Unintentional forgetting is beyond cognitive control

Abstract Intentional forgetting refers to the attempt to marshal top-down control to purposefully forget, and has been demonstrated in the laboratory using directed forgetting paradigms. Here, we asked whether the mechanisms of top-down control can run in the opposite direction to prevent the forget...

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Main Authors: Ashleigh M. Maxcey, Bernadette Dezso, Emma Megla, Ashton Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-07-01
Series:Cognitive Research
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41235-019-0180-5