Intent matters: Resolving the intentional versus incidental learning paradox in episodic long-term memory

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 152; no. 1; p. 268
• Main Authors: Popov, Vencislav, Dames, Hannah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Cognition; Humans; Learning; Memory, Episodic; Memory, Long-Term; Mental Recall - physiology; Semantics

Decades of research have established that the intent to remember information has no effect on episodic long-term memory. This claim, which is routinely taught in introductory cognitive psychology courses, is based entirely on pure-list between-subjects designs in which memory performance is equal fo...