Proactive inhibition as a function of time and degree of prior learning.

The Influence of Degree of Interpolated Learning on Retroactive Inhibition and the Overt Transfer of Specific Responses

Arthur W. Melton, Jean McQueen Irwin · The American Journal of Psychology · 1940 · 339 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +6

A systematic application of the concepts of generalization and differentiation to verbal learning.

Eleanor J. Gibson · Psychological Review · 1940 · 291 citations

Language Studies, Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +11

Retroactive and Proactive Inhibition in Retention: Evidence for a Two-Factor Theory of Retroactive Inhibition

Arthur W. Melton, William J. Von Lackum · The American Journal of Psychology · 1941 · 154 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +9

The effect of successive interpolations on retroactive and proactive inhibition.

Benton J. Underwood · The Psychological Monographs · 1945 · 140 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +3

'Spontaneous recovery' of verbal associations.

Benton J. Underwood · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1948 · 101 citations

Social Sciences, Linguistics, Psychology +4