SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2019
When does sleep affect veridical and false memory consolidation? A meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Is there selective retroactive memory enhancement in humans?: a meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of sleep on novel word learning in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Pooled it
- Sleep deprivation and memory: Meta-analytic reviews of studies on sleep deprivation before and after learning.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- Who Did It? Sleep, Source Memory, and Action Memory in Human 4-Year-Olds.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- No evidence for sleep-dependent memory generalization in a large online sample.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Long-Term Visual Gist Abstraction Independent of Post-Encoding Sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Sleep and False Memory Production: The Modulating Role of Immediate Testing and Type of Retrieval.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Does sleep benefit source memory? Investigating 12-h retention intervals with a multinomial modeling approach.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- A visual paired associate learning (vPAL) paradigm to study memory consolidation during sleep.Journal of sleep research · 2024Article
- Data from "A Registered Report Testing the Effect of Sleep on DRM False Memory: Greater Lure and Veridical Recall but Fewer Intrusions After Sleep".Journal of open psychology data · 2024Article
- A registered report testing the effect of sleep on Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory: greater lure and veridical recall but fewer intrusions after sleep.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying false memories: misinformation, distortion or erroneous configuration?AIMS neuroscience · 2023Review
- False memories formation is increased in individuals with insomnia.Journal of sleep research · 2022Article
- Sleep Modulates Emotional Effect on False Memory.Psychology in Russia : state of the art · 2022Article
- How does social competition affect true and false recognition?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Phase similarity between similar objects indicates representational merging across retrieval training but not sleep.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
It is widely accepted that sleep aids in the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes involved in memory processing; however, the conditions under which sleep influences memory may be substantially constrained. In a meta-analysis, we examined the effects that sleep has on both veridical (accurate) and false memory consolidation, in studies using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm for memory of thematically related words. The meta-analysis revealed that, whereas there was no overall effect of sleep on either accurate or false memories, the effect of sleep on overall memories was moderated by two constraints. First, sleep effects were influenced by the number of words within each themed word list, relating to differences in processing of the associative network of related words. Second, sleep effects were greater in recall than in recognition tests. Thus, whether sleep consolidation increased or decreased DRM veridical or false memory effects depended on the specific features of the memory task.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.