Abstract
Memory and behavioural inhibition tasks show standard forgetting effects but do not correlate — inhibitory control may be task-specific rather than unitary (Noreen & MacLeod, 2015).
Noreen, S., & MacLeod, M. D. (2015). What Do We Really Know about Cognitive Inhibition? Task Demands and Inhibitory Effects across a Range of Memory and Behavioural Tasks. PLOS ONE. DOI.
Key findings
- Memory inhibition tasks: — Retrieval-practice and Think/No-Think both produced standard inhibitory forgetting.
- Null cross-memory correlation: — Forgetting magnitude on one memory paradigm did not predict the other.
Application
When a clinician assumes Think/No-Think training will improve Stroop performance — Noreen and MacLeod show no correlation between memory and behavioural inhibition batteries in the same participants — open this cite for the study behind the move.