Michael C Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7385665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1903-5735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Memory control immediately improves unpleasant emotions associated with autobiographical memories of past immoral actions
The ability to stop unwanted memories from coming to mind is theorised to be essential for maintaining good mental health. People can employ intentional strategies to prevent conscious intrusions of negative memories, and repeated attempts to stop retrieval both reduces the frequency of intrusions and improves subsequent emotions elicited by those memories. However, it is still unknown whether memory control can improve negative emotions immediat…
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences
Two experiments examined the effects of deliberately suppressing retrieval of motor sequences on their later recall, in the think/no-think paradigm (Anderson & Green, 2001). After several motor sequences had been associated with individual cues through repeated practice cycles, a subset of these sequences was retrieved in response to their respective cues (think trials), whereas other sequences were suppressed. In such no-think trials, cues were …
Autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memory is clearly important to each of us, as it helps to define our sense of ourselves as people. The factor analysis of the results found considerable overlap between the directive function, the self-related function, and those related to nurturing and developing relationships. A central problem in studying autobiographical memory is that of knowing what was initially experienced. A prominent feature of probed autobiographical …
Retrieval
This chapter considers the processes of retrieval, and what factors influence retrieval success. Retrieval is less effective if cues are present, but not attended, or not attended enough. One way of reducing attention to cues is by giving people a secondary task to perform during retrieval. Retrieval success depends on how associated the cues are to the target, which depends on the time and attention we spend encoding the association. The pattern…
Motivated forgetting
This chapter considers what is known about how people forget things that they would prefer not to remember. Motivated forgetting encompasses the term psychogenic amnesia, which means any forgetting that is psychological in origin, and not attributed to neurological damage or dysfunction—forgetting that is psychological in genesis. Theoretically, controlling unwanted memories may be accomplished by intervening at any stage of memory. The simplest …
Learning
This chapter illustrates some of Hermann Ebbinghaus’s fundamental contributions to studying the learning process, laying the groundwork for all the work that has come since then. The performance benefits of learning time first documented by Hermann Ebbinghaus, surely are reflections in behavior of such structural plasticity in the brain. One danger in encouraging learners to use retrieval practice is that retrieval is not always successful, or so…
Incidental forgetting
This chapter considers the mechanisms that underlie forgetting. The apparent flattening out of the forgetting curve over time demonstrates that memories are not equally vulnerable to forgetting at all points in their history. Experimental psychologists have traditionally emphasized incidental forgetting, stressing the involvement of passive processes that occur as a bi-product of changes in the world or the person. Retrieval-induced forgetting is…
Episodic memory: Organizing and remembering
This chapter discusses what is known about successful storage of information in episodic memory. It focuses on basic cognitive and neuroscience research on the factors and mechanisms that contribute to good episodic memory in healthy participants. A key element of Bartlett’s approach to memory was his emphasis on how people actively and inevitably seek meaning in new experiences, and, in doing so, impose their own organization on the events they …
Memory
Memory
Memory
Memory
Memory
Does retrieving a memory insulate it against memory inhibition? A retroactive interference study
Several recent studies suggest that an initial retrieval attempt imbues retrieved memories with special resilience against future interference and other forgetting mechanisms. Here we report two experiments examining whether memories established through initial retrieval remain subject to retrieval-induced forgetting. Using a version of a classical retroactive interference design, we trained participants on a list of A-B pairs via anticipation - …
Memory
Memory
Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting
Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that continues when cues later remind someone of the memory. Here, we review the emerging behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that suppressing awareness of an unwelcome memory, at encoding or retrieval, is achieved by inhibitory control processes mediated by the lateral prefrontal …
Memory
Memory
Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories
Over a century ago, Freud proposed that unwanted memories can be excluded from awareness, a process called repression. It is unknown, however, how repression occurs in the brain. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural systems involved in keeping unwanted memories out of awareness. Controlling unwanted memories was associated with increased dorsolateral prefrontal activation, reduced hippocampal activation, and impair…
Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control
On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: Memory retrieval as a model case.
Theories of cognition frequently assume the existence of inhibitory mechanisms that deactivate mental representations. Justifying this assumption is difficult because cognitive effects thought to reflect inhibition can often be explained without recourse to inhibitory processes. This article addresses the uncertain status of cognitive inhibitory mechanisms, focusing on their function in memory retrieval. On the basis of a novel form of forgetting…
Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory.
Three studies show that the retrieval process itself causes long-lasting forgetting. Ss studied 8 categories (e.g., Fruit). Half the members of half the categories were then repeatedly practiced through retrieval tests (e.g., Fruit Or_____). Category-cued recall of unpracticed members of practiced categories was impaired on a delayed test. Experiments 2 and 3 identified 2 significant features of this retrieval-induced forgetting: The impairment r…
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Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory.
Three studies show that the retrieval process itself causes long-lasting forgetting. Ss studied 8 categories (e.g., Fruit). Half the members of half the categories were then repeatedly practiced through retrieval tests (e.g., Fruit Or_____). Category-cued recall of unpracticed members of practiced categories was impaired on a delayed test. Experiments 2 and 3 identified 2 significant features of this retrieval-induced forgetting: The impairment r…
On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: Memory retrieval as a model case.
Theories of cognition frequently assume the existence of inhibitory mechanisms that deactivate mental representations. Justifying this assumption is difficult because cognitive effects thought to reflect inhibition can often be explained without recourse to inhibitory processes. This article addresses the uncertain status of cognitive inhibitory mechanisms, focusing on their function in memory retrieval. On the basis of a novel form of forgetting…
Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control
Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories
Over a century ago, Freud proposed that unwanted memories can be excluded from awareness, a process called repression. It is unknown, however, how repression occurs in the brain. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural systems involved in keeping unwanted memories out of awareness. Controlling unwanted memories was associated with increased dorsolateral prefrontal activation, reduced hippocampal activation, and impair…
Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting
Not all memories are equally welcome in awareness. People limit the time they spend thinking about unpleasant experiences, a process that begins during encoding, but that continues when cues later remind someone of the memory. Here, we review the emerging behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that suppressing awareness of an unwelcome memory, at encoding or retrieval, is achieved by inhibitory control processes mediated by the lateral prefrontal …
Memory
Memory
Memory
Autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memory is clearly important to each of us, as it helps to define our sense of ourselves as people. The factor analysis of the results found considerable overlap between the directive function, the self-related function, and those related to nurturing and developing relationships. A central problem in studying autobiographical memory is that of knowing what was initially experienced. A prominent feature of probed autobiographical …
Retrieval
This chapter considers the processes of retrieval, and what factors influence retrieval success. Retrieval is less effective if cues are present, but not attended, or not attended enough. One way of reducing attention to cues is by giving people a secondary task to perform during retrieval. Retrieval success depends on how associated the cues are to the target, which depends on the time and attention we spend encoding the association. The pattern…
Motivated forgetting
This chapter considers what is known about how people forget things that they would prefer not to remember. Motivated forgetting encompasses the term psychogenic amnesia, which means any forgetting that is psychological in origin, and not attributed to neurological damage or dysfunction—forgetting that is psychological in genesis. Theoretically, controlling unwanted memories may be accomplished by intervening at any stage of memory. The simplest …
Learning
This chapter illustrates some of Hermann Ebbinghaus’s fundamental contributions to studying the learning process, laying the groundwork for all the work that has come since then. The performance benefits of learning time first documented by Hermann Ebbinghaus, surely are reflections in behavior of such structural plasticity in the brain. One danger in encouraging learners to use retrieval practice is that retrieval is not always successful, or so…
Incidental forgetting
This chapter considers the mechanisms that underlie forgetting. The apparent flattening out of the forgetting curve over time demonstrates that memories are not equally vulnerable to forgetting at all points in their history. Experimental psychologists have traditionally emphasized incidental forgetting, stressing the involvement of passive processes that occur as a bi-product of changes in the world or the person. Retrieval-induced forgetting is…
Episodic memory: Organizing and remembering
This chapter discusses what is known about successful storage of information in episodic memory. It focuses on basic cognitive and neuroscience research on the factors and mechanisms that contribute to good episodic memory in healthy participants. A key element of Bartlett’s approach to memory was his emphasis on how people actively and inevitably seek meaning in new experiences, and, in doing so, impose their own organization on the events they …
Memory
Memory
Memory
Memory
Memory
Does retrieving a memory insulate it against memory inhibition? A retroactive interference study
Several recent studies suggest that an initial retrieval attempt imbues retrieved memories with special resilience against future interference and other forgetting mechanisms. Here we report two experiments examining whether memories established through initial retrieval remain subject to retrieval-induced forgetting. Using a version of a classical retroactive interference design, we trained participants on a list of A-B pairs via anticipation - …
Memory
Suppression-induced forgetting of motor sequences
Two experiments examined the effects of deliberately suppressing retrieval of motor sequences on their later recall, in the think/no-think paradigm (Anderson & Green, 2001). After several motor sequences had been associated with individual cues through repeated practice cycles, a subset of these sequences was retrieved in response to their respective cues (think trials), whereas other sequences were suppressed. In such no-think trials, cues were …
Memory control immediately improves unpleasant emotions associated with autobiographical memories of past immoral actions
The ability to stop unwanted memories from coming to mind is theorised to be essential for maintaining good mental health. People can employ intentional strategies to prevent conscious intrusions of negative memories, and repeated attempts to stop retrieval both reduces the frequency of intrusions and improves subsequent emotions elicited by those memories. However, it is still unknown whether memory control can improve negative emotions immediat…
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