Concept information
Preferred term
forgetting
Definition
- "Forgetting is defined as the lack of availability, partial or total, temporary or permanent, of memories of lived events or of information previously encountered, processed or learned." (Della Sala & Cubelli, 2021, p. 157).
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- forgetfulness
- oblivescence
- oblivion
- obliviscence
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Davis, R. L., & Zhong, Y. (2017). The biology of forgetting—A perspective. Neuron, 95(3), 490–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.039
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Della Sala, S., Baddeley, A., Peng, N., & Logie, R. (2024). Assessing long-term forgetting: A pragmatic approach. Cortexn 170, 80-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.009
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Della Sala, S., & Cubelli, R. (2021). Definition: Forgetting. Cortex, 136, 157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.013
• Document type: conceptual analysis
• Access: open
- • Eysenck, M. W., & Groome, D. (Eds.). (2020). Forgetting: Explaining memory failure. SAGE Publications Ltd.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Moreno, A. (2021). Molecular mechanisms of forgetting. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(8), 6912–6932. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14839
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Radvansky, G. A., Doolen, A. C., Pettijohn, K. A., & Ritchey, M. (2022). A new look at memory retention and forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(11), 1698–1723. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001110
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Ryan, T. J., & Frankland, P. W. (2022). Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00548-3
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Sala, S. D. (Ed.). (2010). Forgetting. Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851647
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Wixted, J.T. (2004). The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 235-269. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141555
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Wixted, J. T. (2022). Absolute versus relative forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(12), 1775‑1786. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001196
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has study method(s)
- autobiographical think/no-think task
- Brown-Peterson task
- Cognitive Failures Questionnaire
- Don't remember/Don't know paradigm
- Everyday Memory Questionnaire
- item-method directed forgetting paradigm
- list-method directed forgetting paradigm
- Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire
- Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire
- saving method
- selective directed forgetting paradigm
- think/no-think paradigm
- thought substitution method
Has theory(ies)
In other languages
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French
URI
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