Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium

Kimberly Craig - Psychology

Friday, February 01, 2013, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B247 EH
Sponsored By: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

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ABSTRACT:

"How can you forget something that you’ve just seen? Often, events from the recent past may be the culprit. Interference from the past, known as proactive interference, is a major source of forgetting. While this effect can be very robust, we do not yet fully understand what conditions are necessary to create proactive interference. In this talk, I will suggest a new perspective on proactive interference that begins to address this issue. Specifically, that proactive interference occurs whenever distracting items in memory are similar to the targets of current processing along task-relevant dimensions. Support for this concept will be demonstrated within the context of the recent probes task, a standard measure of proactive interference, as well as an n-back task."