| dc.description.abstract | Recognition-induced forgetting refers to a visual memory phenomenon in which the initial recognition of certain objects within a category causes the subsequent forgetting of other objects within the same category. Memory for pictures has been studied exclusively using recognition as a method to induce forgetting, assuming that recall of pictures would be too subjective, if not impossible, to measure. Here, for the first time, we ask whether recalling pictures is a viable method for inducing forgetting of visual memory. To this end, we implemented drawing as a recall task in the typical three-phase induced forgetting paradigm. After studying pictures, subjects drew a subset of them from memory. Then memory for all pictures was tested using a recognition memory task. Not only did we find the first evidence of recall-induced forgetting of pictures, but we also established the use of drawing individual pictures as a method for studying recall. | en_US |
