The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting.

By John T. Wixted. 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Generalization Through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories (2012, background): “, in paired associate paradigms) through a reduction in forgetting (Diekelmann & Born, 2010; Wixted, 2004).”
Continual Reinforcement Learning with Complex Synapses (2018, background): “One of the outstanding enigmas in computational neuroscience is how the brain is capable of continual or lifelong learning (Wixted, 2004), acquiring new memories and skills very quickly while robustly preserving old ones.”
Genetic dissection of mutual interference between two consecutive learning tasks in Drosophila (2022, background): “The interference from the previous task on the learning and memory of the current task is called proactive interference (Pro-I), while the interference from the current task on the memory of the following task is named retroactive interference (Retro-I) (Bouton, 1993; Wixted, 2004).”
Embracing Change: Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks. (2020, background): “Mammalian brains have been shown to have complex mechanisms at the synaptic level, which protect against interference between old and new knowledge, or even conflicting facts and skills [2].”
Meta-Consolidation for Continual Learning (2020, background): “Further, other work [33, 85, 5, 75] extended the connection between memory consolidation and improved continual learning capabilities.”
Dopamine Is Required for Learning and Forgetting in Drosophila (2012, positive): “In addition, it may be that other mechanisms implicated in forgetting, such as proactive interference, retroactive interference, mental exertion, and stress (Jonides et al., 2008; Wixted, 2004), function by modulating the activity of the dopamine-based forgetting mechanism described here.”
False Memories: What the Hell are They For? (2009, background): “Even details that are well attended are subsequently subject to various kinds of interference (Wixted, 2004).”
A Normative Theory of Forgetting: Lessons from the Fruit Fly (2014, background): “While interference based explanations are favored by many [5,12], Hardt et al.”
REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks (2009, background): “Experiences during waking have been shown to interfere with memory consolidation (29).”
PassPoints: Design and longitudinal evaluation of a graphical password system (2005, background): “A recent review emphasizes the importance of retroactive interference in everyday forgetting (Wixted, 2004).”
The Biology of Forgetting – A Perspective (2017, background): “Furthermore, although studies from experimental psychology have provided some concepts about the types of forgetting (Figure 1; Wixted, 2004; Anderson and Hanslmayr, 2014; Ricker et al., 2015; Baddeley et al., 2015), resolving the biological basis for forgetting and providing a robust delineation…”
Motor Learning and Consolidation: The Case of Visuomotor Rotation (2009, background): “Specifically, it has been shown that for pair-associates word learning and other forms of episodic memory task (Wixted 2004).”
Dopamine Neurons Mediate Learning and Forgetting through Bidirectional Modulation of a Memory Trace (2018, neutral): “In addition, the erosion of cellular memory traces occurring with new learning can mechanistically explain retroactive interference (Wixted, 2004).”
Dissecting neural pathways for forgetting in Drosophila olfactory aversive memory (2015, background): “Rooted respectively in the concepts of decay and interference (32, 77), these two forms of forgetting have notable and interesting distinctions.”
Transcending Knowledge Differences in Cross-Functional Teams (2012, background): “By dropping the scaffold, the team members did not need to engage in the cognitively complex effort of maintaining two versions of reality—one internalized and one externalized (Wixted 2004).”
Memorability of Image Regions (2012, background): “It is well established that stored visual information decays over time [30, 31, 14], which can be represented in a model by a novel image vector with missing global and local information.”
Sleep to Remember (2006, background): “…memory system that has prompted the traditional view that sleep benefits memory consolidation mainly by protecting the newly encoded and still fragile representations from interference that results from the encoding of other events during the critical period of consolidation (Wixted 2004).”