ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Selective memory retrieval can revive forgotten memories.
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- Reinstating memories' temporal context at encoding causes Sisyphus-like memory rejuvenation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Interaction of repetition and retention interval influences the transfer effect after answer feedback for episodic memory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- To-be-forgotten information shows more relative forgetting over time than to-be-remembered information.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- The critical importance of timing of retrieval practice for the fate of nonretrieved memories.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Selective restudy can reset recall of forgotten information.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- The enigma of forgetting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Selective memory retrieval can revive forgotten memories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Humans remember less and less of what was encoded as more and more time passes. Selective retrieval can interrupt such time-dependent forgetting, enhancing recall not only of the retrieved but also of the nonretrieved information. The recall enhancement has been attributed to context retrieval and the idea that selective retrieval reactivates the retrieved item's temporal context during study, which can facilitate recall of other items that had a similar context at study. However, it is unclear whether context retrieval induces a transient discontinuity in the stream of temporal context only, or a more permanent updating of context that would entail a lasting interruption of time-dependent forgetting. In three experiments, we analyzed time-dependent forgetting of encoded information right after study and after time-lagged selective retrieval. Selective retrieval boosted recall of the nonretrieved information up to the levels observed directly after study. Intriguingly, it also created a restart of time-dependent forgetting that made forgetting after retrieval indistinguishable from forgetting after study and thus induced a reset of the recall process. The results suggest that selective retrieval can revive forgotten memories and cause lasting recall enhancement, effects likely mediated by context retrieval and a permanent updating of temporal context.
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