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 -