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  • Psychology

Background:

  • Directed forgetting (DF) of item lists is context-dependent.
  • DF of individual items is typically linked to item-level processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of context processing in individual item directed forgetting.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed words interspersed with scene images (context tags).
  • Words were later presented with remember/forget instructions.
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and multivariate pattern analysis were used.

Main Results:

  • Forget instructions led to diminished item-related activity and greater reactivation of context information compared to remember instructions.
  • The degree of item-context information separation predicted successful forgetting.

Conclusions:

  • Unbinding items from their context may facilitate the intention to forget.
  • Contextual processing contributes to item-method directed forgetting.