Forgetting “Novel” but Not “Dragon”: The Role of Age of Acquisition on Intentional and Incidental Forgetting Marful Quiroga, María Alejandra Gómez Ariza, Carlos Javier Barbón, Analia Bajo Molina, María Teresa Memory Recall (Memory) Cognitive impairment Cognition Memory consolidation Experimental design Inhibitions Learning Two experiments studied how the age at which words are acquired (Age of Acquisition, AoA) modulates forgetting. Experiment 1 employed the retrieval-practice paradigm to test the effect of AoA on the incidental forgetting that emerges after solving competition during retrieval (i.e., retrieval-induced forgetting, RIF). Standard RIF appeared with late-acquired words, but this effect disappeared with early-acquired words. Experiment 2 evaluated the effect of AoA on intentional forgetting by employing the list-method directed forgetting paradigm. Results showed a standard directed forgetting effect only when the to-be-forgotten words were late-acquired words. These findings point to the prominent role of AoA in forgetting processes. 2017-02-08T13:58:26Z 2017-02-08T13:58:26Z 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Marful Quiroga, A.; et al. Forgetting “Novel” but Not “Dragon”: The Role of Age of Acquisition on Intentional and Incidental Forgetting. Plos One, 11(5): e0155110 (2016). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/44746] 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/44746 10.1371/journal.pone.0155110 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Public Library of Science (PLOS)