Language Impacts Memory: The Selective Practice of Information in a Second Language Affects the Socially-Shared Retrieval Induced Forgetting Effect

Recalling a memory often results in the suppression of related and un-retrieved memories. Results from a sample of Romanian (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals show that this suppression effect disappears when the encoding and testing phases occur in L1 while the selective practice occurs in L2.