TY - RPRT U1 - Arbeitspapier A1 - Tempel, Tobias A1 - Chen, Rui A1 - Tao, Yun A1 - Liu, Zhi T1 - From A to Z? Retrieval-induced forgetting of non-verbal information indicates how writing systems can shape memory organisation N2 - We investigated retrieval-induced forgetting of motor sequences in samples of Chinese participants. Retrieval-induced forgetting occurs when selective retrieval of a subset of information stored in memory causes forgetting for the non-retrieved rest. This phenomenon critically depends on the organised storage of separate categories of memory representations. In studies with participants from a Western culture (Germany), a categorization in left- and right-hand movements previously had been supported by letter stimuli based on a spatial mental representation of the Roman alphabet. The same assignment of letters from the beginning or end of the alphabet to motor sequences performed either with the left- or the right-hand did not entail retrieval-induced forgetting in the present study, however (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, visual features of displaying to-be-learned sequences additionally supported a distinction into left and right. In Experiment 3, learning trials provided verbal category labels. The occurrence of retrieval-induced forgetting in the latter two experiments suggests language-dependent organisation of non-verbal items in memory. KW - Studie KW - Retrieval-induced forgetting, exerimental study, chinese participants Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12594 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12594 N1 - Volltext ist unter angegebener DOI abrufbar. IS - International Journal of Psychology 55(3), 2020 SP - 347 EP - 353 PB - Wiley Online Library ER -