ArticleScientific reports2020
Targeted memory reactivation during sleep boosts intentional forgetting of spatial locations.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Concurrent Presentation of Memory-Related Odours and Sounds Nullified Sleep Reactivation Benefits.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Forgetting as an active process: Attentional withdrawal following a forget instruction.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Aversive memories can be weakened during human sleep via the reactivation of positive interfering memories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- An update on recent advances in targeted memory reactivation during sleep.NPJ science of learning · 2024Review
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- Updating memories of unwanted emotions during human sleep.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- The effects of sleep and targeted memory reactivation on the consolidation of relevant and irrelevant information.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
- The functions of sleep: A cognitive neuroscience perspective.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Does Sleep Selectively Strengthen Certain Memories Over Others Based on Emotion and Perceived Future Relevance?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
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- Erratum issued
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Although we experience thousands of distinct events on a daily basis, relatively few are committed to memory. The human capacity to intentionally control which events will be remembered has been demonstrated using learning procedures with instructions to purposely avoid committing specific items to memory. In this study, we used a variant of the item-based directed-forgetting procedure and instructed participants to memorize the location of some images but not others on a grid. These instructions were conveyed using a set of auditory cues. Then, during an afternoon nap, we unobtrusively presented a cue that was used to instruct participant to avoid committing the locations of some images to memory. After sleep, memory was worse for to-be-forgotten image locations associated with the presented sound relative to those associated with a sound that was not presented during sleep. We conclude that memory processing during sleep can serve not only to secure memory storage but also to weaken it. Given that intentional suppression may be used to weaken unpleasant memories, such sleep-based strategies may help accelerate treatments for memory-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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