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Can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? Evidence from a multinomial processing tree model

A large body of research has shown that self-referential processing can enhance an individual’s memory of information. However, there are many arguments about how self-referential processing affects directed forgetting (DF). In this study, two experiments were designed to investigate the DF effect a...

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Autores principales: Wang, Runzhou, Song, Yaowu, Zhao, Xiaojun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30689674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211280
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description A large body of research has shown that self-referential processing can enhance an individual’s memory of information. However, there are many arguments about how self-referential processing affects directed forgetting (DF). In this study, two experiments were designed to investigate the DF effect and its internal psychological mechanism under explicit and implicit referential conditions using the item-method DF paradigm combined with the storage-retrieval MPT model. We compare the difference in the DF effect between self-referential and other-referential conditions and explain the reasons for the difference. Our results suggest that the item-method DF effect is the result of a selective rehearsal mechanism and a retrieval inhibition mechanism working together. Both self-reference and other-reference can cause DF in explicit referential processing or implicit referential processing, although the DF effect is stronger under the self-referential condition. Furthermore, the memory advantage effect of implicit self-referential processing is stronger than that of explicit self-referential processing.
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spelling pubmed-63493392019-02-15 Can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? Evidence from a multinomial processing tree model Wang, Runzhou Song, Yaowu Zhao, Xiaojun PLoS One Research Article A large body of research has shown that self-referential processing can enhance an individual’s memory of information. However, there are many arguments about how self-referential processing affects directed forgetting (DF). In this study, two experiments were designed to investigate the DF effect and its internal psychological mechanism under explicit and implicit referential conditions using the item-method DF paradigm combined with the storage-retrieval MPT model. We compare the difference in the DF effect between self-referential and other-referential conditions and explain the reasons for the difference. Our results suggest that the item-method DF effect is the result of a selective rehearsal mechanism and a retrieval inhibition mechanism working together. Both self-reference and other-reference can cause DF in explicit referential processing or implicit referential processing, although the DF effect is stronger under the self-referential condition. Furthermore, the memory advantage effect of implicit self-referential processing is stronger than that of explicit self-referential processing. Public Library of Science 2019-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6349339/ /pubmed/30689674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211280 Text en © 2019 Wang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? Evidence from a multinomial processing tree model
title_full_unstemmed Can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? Evidence from a multinomial processing tree model
title_short Can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? Evidence from a multinomial processing tree model
title_sort can self-referential information improve directed forgetting? evidence from a multinomial processing tree model
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6349339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30689674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211280
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