What is directed forgetting?

• Directed forgetting Effect (DFE) is the ability to selectively remember and forget events

• Has been shown to exist across a number of stimuli, but what about inherently memorable stimuli (i.e. image stimuli)

Ahmad, Tan & Hockley (2019)

• Investigated participant’s ability to selectively remember or forget images.

Ahmad, Tan & Hockley (2019) Results

• Small directed forgetting effect for exemplar lures

Experiment 1

• To identify which conditions increase DFE magnitudes for images, we weakened the image stimuli memorability.

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Experiment 2

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General Discussion

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