Trial reportScientific reports2017
Brief targeted memory reactivation during the awake state enhances memory stability and benefits the weakest memories.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Promoting memory consolidation during sleep: A meta-analysis of targeted memory reactivation.Psychological bulletin · 2020Pooled it
- No evidence for the impact of mind wandering on recognition associative task: an on-line preregistered study.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Wakeful targeted memory reactivation during short rest periods modulates early motor learning.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2026Article
- Awake reactivation is not a uniform process.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Article
- Memory reactivation during rest forms shortcuts in a cognitive map.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Music-evoked reactivation during continuous perception is associated with enhanced subsequent recall of naturalistic events.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Awake targeted memory reactivation doesn't work.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Memory reactivation generates new, adaptive behaviours that reach beyond direct experience.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- The reach of reactivation: Effects of consciously triggered versus unconsciously triggered reactivation of associative memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Post-encoding task engagement not attentional load is detrimental to awake consolidation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Awake Hippocampal-Cortical Co-reactivation Is Associated with Forgetting.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Improving memory for unusual events with wakeful reactivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Inverse forgetting in unconscious episodic memory.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Wakeful resting and listening to music contrast their effects on verbal long-term memory in dependence on word concreteness.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Improvement of episodic memory retention by a memory reactivation intervention across the lifespan: from younger adults to amnesic patients.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Decreased Efficiency of Between-Network Dynamics During Early Memory Consolidation With Aging.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Reactivation of representations corresponding to recent experience is thought to be a critical mechanism supporting long-term memory stabilization. Targeted memory reactivation, or the re-exposure of recently learned cues, seeks to induce reactivation and has been shown to benefit later memory when it takes place during sleep. However, despite recent evidence for endogenous reactivation during post-encoding awake periods, less work has addressed whether awake targeted memory reactivation modulates memory. Here, we found that brief (50 ms) visual stimulus re-exposure during a repetitive foil task enhanced the stability of cued versus uncued associations in memory. The extent of external or task-oriented attention prior to re-exposure was inversely related to cueing benefits, suggesting that an internally-orientated state may be most permissible to reactivation. Critically, cueing-related memory benefits were greatest in participants without explicit recognition of cued items and remained reliable when only considering associations not recognized as cued, suggesting that explicit cue-triggered retrieval processes did not drive cueing benefits. Cueing benefits were strongest for associations and participants with the poorest initial learning. These findings expand our knowledge of the conditions under which targeted memory reactivation can benefit memory, and in doing so, support the notion that reactivation during awake time periods improves memory stabilization.
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