How we forget may depend on how we remember

Talya Sadeh; Jason D. Ozubko; Gordon Winocur; Morris Moscovitch

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.008

How we forget may depend on how we remember

Talya Sadeh, Jason D. Ozubko, Gordon Winocur, Morris Moscovitch

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Abstract

Recent developments reveal that memories relying on the hippocampus are relatively resistant to interference, but sensitive to decay. The hippocampus is vital to recollection, a form of memory involving reinstatement of a studied item within its spatial-temporal context. An additional form of memory known as familiarity does not involve contextual reinstatement, but a feeling of acquaintance with the studied items. Familiarity depends more on extrahippocampal structures that do not have the properties promoting resistance to interference. These notions led to the novel hypothesis that the causes of forgetting depend on the memories' nature: memories depending on recollection are more vulnerable to decay than interference, whereas for memories depending on familiarity, the reverse is true. This review provides comprehensive evidence for this hypothesis.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	26-36
Number of pages	11
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.008
State	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Decay
Familiarity
Forgetting
Hippocampus
Interference
Recollection

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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How we forget may depend on how we remember

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