Hello how are you???
Well, this week I’m going to talk about one research that has showed that the hability to inhibit irrelevant information is related to Working Memory (WM) capacity. This research was done by Maria Felipa Soriano and Maria Teresa Bajo, who make three experiments to explore and check this relationship between inhibition of irrelevant information and WM. They use a list method directed-forgetting task (DF) in participants varying in WM capacity. When they had the results, they discovered in Experiment 1, DF effects were only found for participants with low WM capacity, whereas high WM capacity participants did not show this effect. In the second experiment, 2 and 3 interference was increased by introducing a memory load between the to-be-forgotten and the to-be-remembered list (Experiment2) and by increasing the list length (Experiment 3).
In conclusion, the reversal of the effect for the high and low WM capacity group depending on the degree of interference suggests that inhibition in the DF procedure depends on both: the degree of interference experienced by the participants, and the availability of controlled resources.
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Hi Valentina,
This sounds like an interesting article. I don't know very much about this topic, which appears to be the ability to inhibit irrelevant information. It seems that these researchers were trying to determine certain characteristics about the way in which memory functions. Is there a way in which these experiments can be applied to everyday life? Thanks for your post.
-Chelsea
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