TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz A1 - Pastötter, Bernhard T1 - No Inhibitory Deficit in Older Adults' Episodic Memory JF - Psychological Science N2 - Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied material can cause forgetting of the unpracticed material. Such retrieval-induced forgetting is attributed to an inhibitory mechanism recruited to resolve interference among competing items. According to the inhibition-deficit hypothesis, older people experience a specific decline in inhibitory function and thus should show reduced retrieval-induced forgetting. However, the results of the two experiments reported here show the same amount of retrieval-induced forgetting in younger and older adults. These results indicate that retrieval inhibition is intact in older adults' episodic recall. The findings suggest that the common view of a general inhibitory deficit in older adults needs to be updated and that older adults show intact inhibition in some cognitive tasks and deficient inhibition in others. KW - retrieval-induced forgetting Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01851.x VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 72 EP - 78 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Individual differences in working memory capacity predict retrieval-induced forgetting JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition N2 - Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied information enhances memory for the retrieved information but causes forgetting of related, nonretrieved information. Such retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) has often been attributed to inhibitory executive-control processes that supposedly suppress the nonretrieved items' memory representation. Here, we examined the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in young adults' RIF. WMC was assessed by means of the operation span task. Results revealed a positive relationship between WMC and RIF, with high-WMC individuals showing more RIF than low-WMC individuals. In contrast, individuals showed enhanced memory for retrieved information regardless of WMC. The results are consistent with previous individual-differences work that suggests a close link between WMC and inhibitory efficiency. In particular, the finding supports the inhibitory executive-control account of RIF. KW - retrieval-induced forgetting Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021324 VL - 37 IS - 1 SP - 264 EP - 269 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Retrieval-induced forgetting in old and very old age JF - Psychology and Aging N2 - Selectively retrieving a subset of previously studied information can cause forgetting of related, nonretrieved information. Such retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) has typically been attributed to inhibitory control processes. Examining participants with a mean age of about 70 years, previous work reported intact RIF in older adults, suggesting efficient inhibition in older adults' episodic memory. We replicated the prior work by finding reliable RIF in young-old participants (60–75 years), but additionally found RIF to decline with increasing age and to be inefficient in old-old participants (above 75 years). The results support the proposal of an inhibitory deficit in (very) old age. KW - retrieval-induced forgetting Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028379 VL - 27 IS - 4 SP - 1027 EP - 1032 ER -