Reward eliminates retrieval-induced forgetting

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 111; no. 48; pp. 17326 - 17329
• Main Authors: Imai, Hisato, Kim, Dongho, Sasaki, Yuka, Watanabe, Takeo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 02.12.2014; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analysis of Variance; Apple juice; Behavioral neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Experimentation; False alarms; Female; Forgetting; human behavior; Humans; Information processing; Inhibition (Psychology); juices; Learning; Learning - physiology; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Memory recall; Mental Recall - physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Photic Stimulation - methods; Potable water; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Recall; Reward; Salmon; Spreading activation models; Young Adult; reward; learning; memory; retrieval-induced forgetting

Although it is well known that reward enhances learning and memory, how extensively such enhancement occurs remains unclear. To address this question, we examined how reward influences retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) in which the retrieval of a nonpracticed item under the same category as a pract...