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July 31, 2026Journal of Memory and LanguageOpen Access

Negation induced forgetting: Investigating potential boundary conditions

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BKBarbara KaupJNJule NibbenhagenCDCarolin Dudschig

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Overview

Randomized trial investigates forgetting effects due to negation in memory tasks, suggesting complexity of mechanisms involved.

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore the negation-induced forgetting effect and its boundary conditions on memory.
  • Conducted four experiments involving video presentations and subsequent verification tasks.
  • Participants responded to true/false statements and underwent distractor tasks followed by recognition tests.
  • Examined the impact of negation scope on memory for objects mentioned in different statement types.
  • Forgetting rates for 'no' responses were higher than for 'yes' responses in verification tasks.
  • Negation in statements caused similar forgetting rates compared to affirmative statements.
  • The effects of no-responses and sentence negation did not combine additively, hinting at a common mechanism rather than separate ones.

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Kaup et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6c46c0747664a1aa73bb7chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2026.104795
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