Remembering Can Cause Inhibition: Retrieval-Induced Inhibition as Cue Independent Process.

Previous experiments have mostly relied on recall as a dependent measure to assess whether retrieval of information from memory causes inhibition of related information.This study aimed to measure this inhibition in a more direct way.In Experiment 1, it was shown that repeated retrieval of exemplars from a category resulted in longer recognition latencies to nonretrieved exemplars from that same category, compared with recognition latencies to control exemplars.Experiment 2 obtained the same pattern of results using a lexical decision task.This was the 1st time that retrieval-induced forgetting was demonstrated on an implicit test of memory.To exclude noninhibitory explanations of the data, the exemplars were presented in both experiments without their categories as cues.