Animate stimuli are remembered better than inanimate stimuli. The proximate mechanism of this preferential retrieval of animate stimuli has not been clarified. The present study proposes an inhibitory control explanation for the advantage of the memory of animate stimuli. The retrieval practice paradigm is employed to examine the role of inhibitory control in animacy effect in two experiments. The results of Experiment 1 revealed a strong inhibitory effect on animate stimuli but was not reliable on inanimate stimuli, suggesting that animacy effect is not due to the insensitivity to the inhibitory control. The results of Experiment 2 show the absence of animacy effect when animacy is designed as a between-subject variable, suggesting that the memory of artifact may be influenced by the memory of animals. These findings are discussed using the inhibitory control account and suggest that the role of inhibitory control in animacy effect is to selectively inhibit the memory of other categories in order to facilitate the retrieval of animals, indicating that inhibitory control is, in part, responsible for the animacy effect.

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抑制控制在动画效果中的作用：取回练习任务的证据

记住动画刺激要比无生命刺激好。尚不清楚这种优先恢复有生命的刺激的机制。本研究提出了抑制性控制解释的优势，可以存储动画刺激。在两个实验中，采用检索实践范式来检查抑制控制在动画效果中的作用。实验1的结果表明对动画刺激有很强的抑制作用，但对无动画刺激却不可靠，这表明动画效果不是由于对抑制性对照不敏感。实验2的结果表明，当将动画设计为对象间变量时，没有动画效果，这表明伪影的记忆可能会受到动物记忆的影响。