No retrograde interference: forgetting after months is comparable for early- and late-trained tasks (Experiment 1B)¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Performance reduction between last training and re-test did not differ between early and late sequence positions. → Jia Yang 2025

Evidence¶

Jia Yang 2025¶

Jia Yang, Fang-Fang Yan, Tingting Wang, Zile Wang, Qingshang Ma, Jinmei Xiao, Xianyuan Yang, Zhong-Lin Lu & Chang-Bing Huang. (2025). Anterograde interference in multitask perceptual learning. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00312-7

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Re-test of 17 subjects 3–9 months after Experiment 1A: contrary to the retrograde-interference expectation, "the r e d u c t i o ni np e r f o r m a n c eb e t w e e nt h elast training session and re-test was comparable between the early and late groups (allp > 0.05)."

"the r e d u c t i o ni np e r f o r m a n c eb e t w e e nt h elast training session and re-test was comparable between the early and late groups (allp > 0.05)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Later sequence position worsens initial performance in low- and mid-level perceptual tasks (Experiment 1A) — related
• Experiment 2 replicates Vernier anterograde interference and Shape independence with no retrograde interference — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Neither consolidation-disruption nor breakdown-of-inhibition hypotheses are supported for the finger-tapping task; only tenuous support exists for the resource hypothesis — related