Publicación: The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference
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2023
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Recent research has provided evidence that negation processing recruits the neural network of response inhibition (de Vega et al., 2016). Furthermore, inhibition mechanisms also play a role in human memory. In two experiments, we aimed to assess how producing a negation in a verification task may impact long-term memory. Experiment 1 used the same memory paradigm as Mayo et al. (2014), consisting of several phases: first, reading a story describing the activity of a protagonist, immediately followed by a “yes-no” verification task, then a distractive task, and finally an incidental free recall test. Consistent with the previous results, negated sentences were recalled worse than affirmed sentences. Yet, there is a possible confounding between the effect of negation itself and the associative interference of two conflicting predicates – the original and the modified one – in negative trials. To avoid this, Experiment 2 modified the paradigm by including a story describing the activities of two protagonists in such a way that the affirmed and denied verification sentences had the same content, and only differed in the attribution of a specific event to the correct or wrong protagonist. The negation-induced forgetting effect was still powerful, while controlling for potential contaminating variables. Our finding would support that the impaired long-term memory could be ascribed to reusing the inhibitory mechanism of negation
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The registered version of this article, first published in “Cognition, Volume 235, 2023", is available online at the publisher's website: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105412
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Cognition, Volume 235, 2023", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105412
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Negation, Memory, Forgetting, Inhibition, Associative interference
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Anqi Zang, David Beltrán, Huili Wang, Katia Rolán, Manuel de Vega, The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference, Cognition, Volume 235, 2023, 105412, ISSN 0010-0277, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105412.
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Básica I