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What do we really know about cognitive inhibition? Task demands and inhibitory effects across a range of memory and behavioural tasks

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13/08/2015
Author
Noreen, Saima
MacLeod, Malcolm David
Keywords
Suppressing unwanted memories
Latent-variable analysis
Long-term-memory
autobiographical memories
Older-adults
Individual-differences
Thought substitution
Eyewitness-memory
Executive control
Episodic memory
BF Psychology
DAS
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Abstract
Our study explores inhibitory control across a range of widely recognised memory and behavioural tasks. Eighty-seven never-depressed participants completed a series of tasks designed to measure inhibitory control in memory and behaviour. Specifically, a variant of the selective retrieval-practice and the Think/No-Think tasks were employed as measures of memory inhibition. The Stroop-Colour Naming and the Go/No-Go tasks were used as measures of behavioural inhibition. Participants completed all 4 tasks. Task presentation order was counterbalanced across 3 separate testing sessions for each participant. Standard inhibitory forgetting effects emerged on both memory tasks but the extent of forgetting across these tasks was not correlated. Furthermore, there was no relationship between memory inhibition tasks and either of the main behavioural inhibition measures. At a time when cognitive inhibition continues to gain acceptance as an explanatory mechanism, our study raises fundamental questions about what we actually know about inhibition and how it is affected by the processing demands of particular inhibitory tasks.
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Noreen , S & MacLeod , M D 2015 , ' What do we really know about cognitive inhibition? Task demands and inhibitory effects across a range of memory and behavioural tasks ' , PLoS One , vol. 10 , no. 8 , 0134951 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134951
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PLoS One
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134951
ISSN
1932-6203
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 Noreen, MacLeod. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The authors (SN, principal investigator and MDM as co-investigator) received funding from the British Academy for this research (http://www.britac.ac.uk/). The grant number was SG111104.
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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134951#sec019
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7438

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