Abstract
Absence of environmental context effects on recall under directed forgetting conditions. Studies of the effects of environmental context on memory have so far shown a pattern of inconsistent results. In the 4 experiments reported here, directed forgetting manipulations were used to test the possibility that words assigned to a forgetting condition at the time of study were more likely to be affected by contextual manipulations at the time of test. However, no significant differences related to context were found in any of the experiments, despite changes in recall instructions, retention intervals and delay between words and signals to learn or forget. The results are discussed in relation to the directed forgetting paradigm and possible ways of continuing research are outlined.
