SynthesisScientific reports2019
Resting States and Memory Consolidation: A Preregistered Replication and Meta-Analysis.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Assessing daydreaming frequency and control with the Polish version of the Daydreaming Frequency Scale - validation using ecological momentary assessment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact of background input on memory consolidation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Post-encoding task engagement not attentional load is detrimental to awake consolidation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Psychological Momentum.Current directions in psychological science · 2023Article
- Individual differences in sensory processing sensitivity amplify effects of post-learning activity for better and for worse.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Wakeful Rest Benefits Recall, but Not Recognition, of Incidentally Encoded Memory Stimuli in Younger and Older Adults.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Sleep function: an evolutionary perspective.The Lancet. Neurology · 2022Review
- The Birth of the Mammalian Sleep.Biology · 2022Review
- Post-training stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs working memory training performance.Journal of neuroscience research · 2021Article
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Abstract
While several recent studies have found that a post-encoding period of quiet, eyes-closed waking rest benefits memory consolidation, others have reported null effects. To more precisely estimate this effect, we conducted a quasi-exact behavioural replication of a recent study from our lab, which found that post-training eyes-closed waking rest improved declarative memory relative to a distractor task. Contrary to our hypothesis, the observed effect was not significant; however, it did fall within the 95% confidence interval of our previous finding. Furthermore, a meta-analytic effect summarizing n = 10 similar studies indicates a moderately sized and significant benefit of waking rest for verbal memory (d = 0.38, p < 0.001). We argue that the apparently conflicting results in this literature are most parsimoniously explained by variability due to sampling and/or measurement error, in a group of studies often underpowered to detect a smaller-than-expected effect of rest. Additionally, exploratory analyses revealed that increased trait daydreaming frequency negatively correlated with memory retention during eyes-closed rest. Together with our replication and meta-analysis, these studies suggest that waking rest confers a small but significant benefit on memory consolidation, and that this benefit requires the mind to be free from attention to either external tasks or spontaneous thought.
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