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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > forgetting > incidental forgetting > thinking-induced forgetting

Preferred term

thinking-induced forgetting  

Definition

  • The phenomenon discovered during the study of the relationship between memory and creative thinking. The fact of generating new uses for objects can cause previously studied uses to be forgotten.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Storm, B. C., & Patel, T. N. (2014). Forgetting as a consequence and enabler of creative thinking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(6), 1594-1609. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000006

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-J9TZ1W8N-8

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