ArticleCognitive processing2020
Factors modulating the effects of waking rest on memory.
Article in Cognitive processing, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of wakeful rest on memory consolidation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
- Restoration of Attention by Rest in a Multitasking World: Theory, Methodology, and Empirical Evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Post-Learning Offline Pauses Support Consolidation Beyond the Mind-Wandering State.Clocks & sleep · 2026Article
- Wakeful rest and memory consolidation in an ecologically valid educational setting: no benefit over distractor tasks.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Waking rest during retention facilitates memory consolidation, but so does social media use.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Wakeful Rest Benefits Recall, but Not Recognition, of Incidentally Encoded Memory Stimuli in Younger and Older Adults.Brain sciences · 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
- 'Sleep-dependent' memory consolidation? Brief periods of post-training rest and sleep provide an equivalent benefit for both declarative and procedural memory.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Study results indicate that moments of unoccupied rest immediately after learning serve an essential cognitive function: memory consolidation. However, there also are findings suggesting that waking rest after learning has similar effects on delayed memory performance as an active wake condition, where participants work on a cognitive distractor task. Based on these studies, we highlight several potentially modulating factors of the so-called resting effect.
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