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  • Title: Let me give you something to think about: Does needing to remember something new make it easier to forget something old?
    Author: Pandey A, Michaud N, Ivanoff J, Taylor T.
    Journal: Conscious Cogn; 2023 Oct; 115():103581. PubMed ID: 37847944.
    Abstract:
    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-forgotten (TBF) items. We asked whether diverting attentional resources away from TBF items and towards a new item that needed to be committed to memory would improve forgetting. To this end, study words in our experiments were presented singly followed by a remember instruction (single-TBR), by a forget instruction (single-TBF), or else were replaced by a new word to be remembered (replace-TBR) in place of the original study word which could be forgotten (replace-TBF). A typical directed forgetting effect was observed across single and replace trials. However, there was no compelling evidence that forgetting was better for replace-TBF compared to single-TBF words, suggesting that, by itself, the explicit redirection of attentional and other processing resources away from forget items may not be sufficient to improve item-method directed forgetting.
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