TY - CHAP A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Abel, Magdalena ED - Ross, Brian H. T1 - Chapter Five - The Two Faces of Selective Memory Retrieval—Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Processes T2 - Psychology of Learning and Motivation N2 - Numerous studies from the past five decades have shown that selective retrieval of some studied items can impair recall of other items. This chapter reviews more recent work, in which it is demonstrated that selective memory retrieval has two faces and that it can both impair and improve recall of other items. In this recent work, participants' access to study context during selective retrieval was experimentally manipulated and it was examined whether such manipulation influences the effects of selective retrieval. Access to study context was manipulated using listwise directed forgetting, context-dependent forgetting and time-dependent forgetting. The results consistently showed that selective retrieval impairs recall of other memories if access to study context during retrieval is largely maintained, but that selective retrieval can improve recall if study context access is impaired. The findings are explained by a two-factor account, which claims that, in general, selective retrieval does not only trigger inhibition and blocking but also triggers context reactivation processes. The proposal is that primarily inhibition and blocking operate when study context access during selective retrieval is largely maintained, whereas primarily context reactivation processes operate when study context access is impaired. Current findings on the two faces of selective retrieval are well consistent with this theoretical view. KW - Blocking KW - Context reactivation KW - Episodic memory KW - Inhibition KW - Memory development KW - Retrieval-induced facilitation KW - Retrieval-induced forgetting KW - Social recall Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2016.11.004 SP - 167 EP - 209 PB - Academic Press CY - London, Oxford, Boston, New York, San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Testing enhances subsequent learning in older but not in younger elementary school children JF - Developmental Science N2 - In adults, testing can enhance subsequent learning by reducing interference from the tested information. Here, we examined this forward effect of testing in children. Younger and older elementary school children and adult controls studied four lists of items in anticipation of a final cumulative recall test. Following presentation of each of the first three lists, participants were immediately tested on the respective list, or the list was re-presented for additional study. Results revealed that, compared to additional study, immediate testing of Lists 1–3 enhanced memory for the subsequently studied List 4 in adults and older elementary school children, but not in younger elementary school children. The findings indicate that the forward effect of testing is a relatively late-maturing phenomenon that develops over middle childhood and is still inefficient in the early elementary school years. Together with the results of other recent studies, these findings point to a more general problem in young children in combating interference. KW - elementary school children Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12340 VL - 19 IS - 6 SP - 992 EP - 998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Schlichting, Andreas A1 - John, Thomas A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - The Two Faces of Selective Memory Retrieval: Earlier Decline of the Beneficial Than the Detrimental Effect With Older Age JF - Psychology and Aging N2 - Recent work with young adults has shown that, depending on study context access, selective memory retrieval can both impair and improve recall of other memories (Bäuml & Samenieh, 2010). Here, we investigated the 2 opposing effects of selective retrieval in older age. In Experiment 1, we examined 64 younger (20–35 years) and 64 older participants (above 60 years), and manipulated study context access using list-method directed forgetting. Whereas both age groups showed a detrimental effect of selective retrieval on to-be-remembered items, only younger but not older adults showed a beneficial effect on to-be-forgotten items. In Experiment 2, we examined 112 participants from a relatively wide age range (40–85 years), and manipulated study context access by varying the retention interval between study and test. Overall, a detrimental effect of selective retrieval arose when the retention interval was relatively short, but a beneficial effect when the retention interval was prolonged. Critically, the size of the beneficial but not the detrimental effect of retrieval decreased with age and this age-related decline was mediated by individuals’ working memory capacity, as measured by the complex operation span task. Together, the results suggest an age-related dissociation in retrieval dynamics, indicating an earlier decline of the beneficial than the detrimental effect of selective retrieval with older age. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) KW - cognitive aging KW - episodic memory KW - retrieval, context reactivation KW - inhibition Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039874 VL - 30 IS - 4 SP - 824 EP - 834 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schlichting, Andreas A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Holterman, Christoph A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Working memory capacity predicts the beneficial effect of selective memory retrieval JF - Memory N2 - Selective retrieval of some studied items can both impair and improve recall of the other items. This study examined the role of working memory capacity (WMC) for the two effects of memory retrieval. Participants studied an item list consisting of predefined target and nontarget items. After study of the list, half of the participants performed an imagination task supposed to induce a change in mental context, whereas the other half performed a counting task which does not induce such context change. Following presentation of a second list, memory for the original list's target items was tested, either with or without preceding retrieval of the list's nontarget items. Consistent with previous work, preceding nontarget retrieval impaired target recall in the absence of the context change, but improved target recall in its presence. In particular, there was a positive relationship between WMC and the beneficial, but not the detrimental effect of memory retrieval. On the basis of the view that the beneficial effect of memory retrieval reflects context-reactivation processes, the results indicate that individuals with higher WMC are better able to capitalise on retrieval-induced context reactivation than individuals with lower WMC. KW - Blocking KW - Context reactivation KW - Inhibition KW - Retrieval KW - Working memory capacity Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.927506 VL - 23 IS - 5 SP - 786 EP - 794 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Later Maturation of the Beneficial Than the Detrimental Effect of Selective Memory Retrieval JF - Psychological Science N2 - In adults, selective memory retrieval can both impair and improve recall of other memories. The study reported here examined whether children also show these two faces of memory retrieval. Employing a variant of the directed-forgetting task, we asked second, fourth, and seventh graders to study a list of target and nontarget words. After study, the participants received a cue to either forget or continue remembering the list. We subsequently asked some participants to recall the nontarget words before we tested their memory for the target words; for the remaining participants, we tested memory only for the target words. Prior retrieval of nontarget words impaired retrieval of to-be-remembered target words, regardless of children's age. In contrast, prior retrieval of nontarget words improved recall of to-be-forgotten target words in seventh graders, though not in fourth and second graders. These results suggest a developmental dissociation between the two faces of memory retrieval and indicate later maturation of the beneficial effect than of the detrimental effect of selective memory retrieval. KW - cognitive development KW - episodic memory Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613519270 VL - 25 IS - 4 SP - 1025 EP - 1030 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Listwise directed forgetting is present in young-old adults, but is absent in old-old adults JF - Psychology and Aging N2 - People can exert control over the contents of their memory and can intentionally forget information when cued to do so. The present study examined such intentional forgetting in older adults using the listwise directed forgetting (DF) task. We replicated prior work by finding intact forgetting in young-old adults (up to 75 years). Extending the prior work, we additionally found forgetting to decline gradually with individuals' age and to be inefficient in old-old adults (above 75 years). The results indicate that listwise DF is a late-declining capability, suggesting a deficit in very old adults' episodic memory control. KW - intentional forgetting Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031295 VL - 28 IS - 1 SP - 213 EP - 218 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Adaptive memory: Young children show enhanced retention of fitness-related information JF - Cognition N2 - Evolutionary psychologists propose that human cognition evolved through natural selection to solve adaptive problems related to survival and reproduction, with its ultimate function being the enhancement of reproductive fitness. Following this proposal and the evolutionary-developmental view that ancestral selection pressures operated not only on reproductive adults, but also on pre-reproductive children, the present study examined whether young children show superior memory for information that is processed in terms of its survival value. In two experiments, we found such survival processing to enhance retention in 4- to 10-year-old children, relative to various control conditions that also required deep, meaningful processing but were not related to survival. These results suggest that, already in very young children, survival processing is a special and extraordinarily effective form of memory encoding. The results support the functional-evolutionary proposal that young children’s memory is “tuned” to process and retain fitness-related information. KW - Cognition in children KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Adaptive memory KW - Episodic memory KW - Survival processing in children Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.001 VL - 122 IS - 1 SP - 118 EP - 122 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 - Staudigl, Tobias A1 - Samenieh, Anuscheh A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Directed forgetting in young children: Evidence for a production deficiency JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review N2 - When people are cued to forget a previously studied list of items and to learn a new list instead, such cuing typically leads to forgetting of the first list and to memory enhancement of the second. In two experiments, we examined such listwise directed forgetting in children (and adults), using a forget cue that placed either high emphasis or low emphasis on the need to forget. In the low-emphasis condition, (adult-like) List 1 forgetting was present in fourth graders, but not in first graders (and kindergartners); in contrast, in the high-emphasis condition, (adult-like) List 1 forgetting was present from first grade on. Only fourth graders showed (adult-like) List 2 enhancement, regardless of task instruction. The finding that first graders showed List 1 forgetting only in the high-emphasis condition points to a production deficiency in first graders’ directed forgetting, suggesting that the children are capable of intentional forgetting but fail to do so spontaneously. The finding that first graders showed List 1 forgetting without List 2 enhancement suggests that the two directed-forgetting effects are mediated by different processes with different developmental trajectories. KW - Fourth Grader KW - Task Instruction KW - High Emphasis KW - Retrieval Inhibition KW - Production Deficiency Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.6.784 VL - 17 IS - 6 SP - 784 EP - 789 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Samenieh, Anuscheh A1 - Staudigl, Tobias A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Memorial Consequences of Environmental Context Change in Children and Adults JF - Experimental Psychology N2 - Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, either in the same room (no context change) or in two different rooms (context change), and subsequently were tested on the two lists in the room in which the second list was encoded. As expected, in adults, the context change impaired recall of the first list and improved recall of the second. Whereas fourth graders showed the same pattern of results as adults, in both kindergartners and first graders no memorial effects of the context change arose. The results indicate that the two effects of environmental context change develop contemporaneously over middle childhood and reach maturity at the end of the elementary school days. The findings are discussed in light of both retrieval-based and encoding-based accounts of context-dependent memory. KW - episodic memory KW - context-dependent memory KW - environmental context change KW - memory development KW - cognitive development Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000056 VL - 57 IS - 6 SP - 455 EP - 461 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Retrieval-induced forgetting in young children JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review N2 - A prominent theory of cognitive development attributes the poor performance that children show in many cognitive tasks to a general lack of inhibitory control. We tested this theory by examining children’s inhibitory capabilities in retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF), a memory task in which selective retrieval of previously studied material causes forgetting of related, nonretrieved material. Such forgetting is often attributed to inhibitory control processes, which supposedly suppress the nonretrieved items’ memory representation. We examined RIF in kindergartners, second graders, and adults, using both recall and recognition testing. Although all three age groups showed significant RIF in recall, only adults and second graders, but not kindergartners, showed RIF in recognition. Because inhibition-based RIF should be present in recall and recognition, these findings indicate that in adults and second graders, but not in kindergartners, RIF is mediated by inhibition. The results support the view of inefficient inhibitory processes in young children’s cognition. KW - False Alarm Rate KW - Retrieval Practice KW - Item Recognition KW - Unpracticed Item KW - Final Recall Test Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.5.704 VL - 17 IS - 5 SP - 704 EP - 709 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hanslmayr, Simon A1 - Staudigl, Tobias A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - Theta oscillations predict the detrimental effects of memory retrieval JF - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience N2 - Retrieving a target item from episodic memory typically enhances later memory for the retrieved item but causes forgetting of competing irrelevant memories. This finding is termed retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) and is assumed to be the consequence of an inhibitory mechanism resolving retrieval competition. In the present study, we examined brain oscillatory processes related to RIF, as induced by competitive memory retrieval. Contrasting a competitive with a noncompetitive retrieval condition, we found a stronger increase in early evoked theta (4–7 Hz) activity, which specifically predicted RIF, but not retrieval-induced enhancement. Within the cognitive framework of RIF, these findings suggest that theta oscillations reflect arising interference and its resolution during competitive retrieval in episodic memory. KW - Memory Retrieval KW - Electrode Site KW - Retrieval Practice KW - Competitive Condition KW - Theta Power Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/CABN.10.3.329 VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 329 EP - 338 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Zellner, Martina A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T. T1 - Working memory capacity predicts listwise directed forgetting in adults and children JF - Memory N2 - In listwise directed forgetting, participants are cued to forget previously studied material and to learn new material instead. Such cueing typically leads to forgetting of the first set of material and to memory enhancement of the second. The present study examined the role of working memory capacity in adults' and children's listwise directed forgetting. Working memory capacity was assessed with complex span tasks. In Experiment 1 working memory capacity predicted young adults' directed-forgetting performance, demonstrating a positive relationship between working memory capacity and each of the two directed-forgetting effects. In Experiment 2 we replicated the finding with a sample of first and a sample of fourth-grade children, and additionally showed that working memory capacity can account for age-related increases in directed-forgetting efficiency between the two age groups. Following the view that directed forgetting is mediated by inhibition of the first encoded list, the results support the proposal of a close link between working memory capacity and inhibitory function. KW - Episodic memory KW - Directed forgetting KW - Individual differences KW - Working memory capacity KW - Inhibition KW - Cognitive development Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211003742698 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 442 EP - 450 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment JF - The role of item similarity in part-list cueing impairment N2 - The presentation of a subset of studied items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining (target) items. In three experiments we examined whether such part-list cueing impairment depends on the similarity between cue and target items. Item similarity was manipulated by making use of pre-experimental semantic similarities between cue and target items (Experiments 1 and 2), or was episodically induced through a similarity-encoding task, in which participants were asked to interrelate cue and target items in a meaningful way (Experiment 3). In all three experiments reliable part-list cueing impairment arose when the similarity between cues and targets was low, but no impairment was found when the similarity between cues and targets was high. Inhibitory as well as non-inhibitory explanations of the findings are discussed. KW - Episodic memory KW - Part-list cueing impairment KW - Item similarity KW - Inhibition KW - Feature suppression KW - Retrieval competition Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210902740886 VL - 17 IS - 7 SP - 697 EP - 707 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - Memorial consequences of imagination in children and adults JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review N2 - Recent work with adults suggests that imagination can impair later recall of previously encoded events but can improve recall of subsequently encoded events. The present study examined the memorial consequences of imagination in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two successively presented lists of items. Between the two lists, participants were given an imagination task supposed to create a change in mental context. As expected, in adults, the imagination task impaired recall of the previously encoded material (List 1) and improved recall of the subsequently encoded material (List 2). In children, significant List 1 impairment was present from first grade on, but even fourth graders failed to show improvement for List 2. The results challenge a purely context-based explanation of the memorial costs and benefits of imagination. Instead, they suggest that the two effects are mediated by different mechanisms with different developmental trajectories. KW - Imagination Condition KW - Developmental Trajectory KW - Imagination Task KW - Memorial Cost KW - List Position Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.4.833 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 833 EP - 837 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hanslmayr, Simon A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Staudigl, Tobias A1 - Klimesch, Wolfgang A1 - Herrmann, Christoph S. A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - Prestimulus oscillations predict visual perception performance between and within subjects JF - NeuroImage N2 - In the present study, the electrophysiological correlates of perceiving shortly presented visual stimuli are examined. In particular, we investigated the differences in the prestimulus EEG between subjects who were able to discriminate between four shortly presented stimuli (Perceivers) and subjects who were not (Non-Perceivers). Additionally, we investigated the differences between the subjects perceived and unperceived trials. The results show that Perceivers exhibited lower prestimulus alpha power than Non-Perceivers. Analysis of the prestimulus EEG between perceived and unperceived trials revealed that the perception of a stimulus is related to low phase coupling in the alpha frequency range (8–12 Hz) and high phase coupling in the beta and gamma frequency range (20–45 Hz). Single trial analyses showed that perception performance can be predicted by phase coupling in the alpha, beta and gamma frequency range. The findings indicate that synchronous oscillations in the alpha frequency band inhibit the perception of shortly presented stimuli whereas synchrony in higher frequency ranges (> 20 Hz) enhances visual perception. We conclude that alpha, beta and gamma oscillations indicate the attentional state of a subject and thus are able to predict perception performance on a single trial basis. KW - EEG KW - Oscillations KW - Prestimulus KW - Phase coupling KW - Perception KW - Alpha Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.07.011 VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 1465 EP - 1473 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T1 - Part-list cuing with and without item-specific probes: The role of encoding JF - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review N2 - Part-list cuing—the detrimental effect of the presentation of a subset of studied items on recall of the remaining noncue items—was examined in three different study conditions and in the presence and absence of the noncues’ initial letters serving as item-specific probes. With a single study trial, part-list cuing was observed both with and without item-specific probes. By contrast, when participants received two study-test cycles or interrelated list items to a common story, part-list cues were found to be detrimental only in the absence of item-specific probes, but not in their presence. These results indicate that the role of item-specific probes in part-list cuing depends on encoding. The findings are consistent with a recent two-mechanism account of part-list cuing (Bäuml & Aslan, 2006), according to which two different mechanisms mediate the effect in different encoding situations. KW - False Memory KW - Output Interference KW - Strategy Disruption KW - Retrieval Inhibition KW - Interitem Association Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194095 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 489 EP - 494 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Johansson, Mikael A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz A1 - Gäbel, Andrea A1 - Mecklinger, Axel T1 - When Remembering Causes Forgetting: Electrophysiological Correlates of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting JF - Cerebral Cortex N2 - People tend to forget information that is related to memories they are actively trying to retrieve. On the basis of results from behavioral studies, such retrieval-induced forgetting is held to result from inhibitory control processes that are recruited to attenuate interference caused by competing memory traces. Employing electrophysiological measures of brain activity, the present study examined the neural correlates of these inhibitory processes as they operate. The results demonstrate that sustained prefrontal event-related potentials were 1) related to whether or not selective memory retrieval was required during reprocessing of previously studied words and 2) predictive of individual differences in the amount of forgetting observed in an ensuing recall test. The present findings give support to an inhibitory control account of retrieval-induced forgetting and are in accord with the view that prefrontal regions play an important role in the selection and maintenance of relevant memory representations at the expense of those currently irrelevant. KW - cognitive control KW - episodic memory KW - ERP KW - inhibition KW - prefrontal cortex Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl044 VL - 17 IS - 6 SP - 1335 EP - 1341 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aslan, Alp A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz A1 - Grundgeiger, Tobias T1 - The role of inhibitory processes in part-list cuing JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition N2 - Providing a subset of studied items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining items. In 2 experiments, the authors examined such part-list cuing impairment in a repeated testing situation. Participants studied exemplars from several semantic categories and were given 2 successive cued-recall tests separated by a distractor task of several minutes. Part-list cues were provided in the 1st test but not the 2nd. Noncue item recall was tested with the studied category cues (same probes) in the 1st test, but novel, unstudied retrieval cues (independent probes) in the 2nd test. The authors found detrimental effects of part-list cues in both the 1st (same-probe) test and the 2nd (independent-probe) test. These results show that part-list cuing impairment can be lasting and is not eliminated with independent probes. The findings support the view that the impairment was caused by retrieval inhibition. KW - part-list cuing Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.335 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 335 EP - 341 ER - 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 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz A1 - Aslan, Alp T1 - Part-list cuing can be transient and lasting: The role of encoding JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition N2 - The presentation of a subset of learned items as retrieval cues can have detrimental effects on recall of the remaining items. For 2 types of encoding conditions, the authors examined in 3 experiments whether such part-list cuing is a transient or a lasting phenomenon. Across the experiments, the detrimental effect of part-list cues was consistently found to be transient with a high degree of interitem associations and lasting with a low degree. These results indicate that the persistence of part-list cuing depends on encoding, thus challenging both strategy disruption and retrieval inhibition as general accounts of part-list cuing. A 2-mechanism account is provided according to which the 2 mechanisms mediate the effect in different encoding conditions. KW - part-list cuing Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.1.33 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 33 EP - 43 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bäuml, Karl-Heinz A1 - Aslan, Alp T1 - Part-list cuing as instructed retrieval inhibition JF - Memory & Cognition N2 - The reexposure of a subset of learned material as a retrieval cue can impair recall of the remaining material. Like part-list relearning—the reexposure of learned material for additional learning—this part-list cuing is often assumed to be the result of output order biases at test, caused by the increased strength of the reexposed material. We directly compared the effects of cuing and relearning when controlling for output order biases. In addition, we compared the two forms of reexposure with the effect of part-list retrieval. Both part-list cuing and part-list retrieval reduced recall performance for the remaining material. By contrast, part-list relearning had no such detrimental effect. These results indicate that the effect of reexposure depends on whether material is reexposed as a cue or for relearning, suggesting that part-list cuing reflects an instructional effect. Evidence is provided that part-list cuing leads to instructed covert retrieval of cue items and causes retrieval inhibition of noncue items, similar to how overt retrieval inhibits nonretrieved items. KW - Target Item KW - Delay Condition KW - Retrieval Practice KW - Strategy Disruption KW - Weak Item Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195852 VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 610 EP - 617 ER -