Is iron stronger than copper? When data and theories tell different stories about forgetting

Do people inhibit information in memory when they practice to retrieve other, related information? Or does stronger information merely overshadow other items in memory? The data from many experiments seem to speak against the latter possibility but recent research reveals that the data may not always tell the full story.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news