ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Novelty Improves the Formation and Persistence of Memory in a Naturalistic School Scenario.
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- Is there selective retroactive memory enhancement in humans?: a meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- Differential Modulation of Retroactive Emotional Learning on Concrete and Abstract Word Processing.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Neural and Navigational Features Influencing the Novelty Induced Benefits on Episodic Memory.Hippocampus · 2026Article
- High intensity exercise before sleep boosts memory encoding the next morning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Experience-driven competition in neural reorganization after stroke.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Linking new information to a short-lasting memory trace induces consolidation in the hippocampus.iScience · 2024Article
- States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Reward conditioning may not have an effect on category-specific memory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.Perception · 2023Article
- Novelty-induced memory consolidation is accompanied by increased Agap3 transcription: a cross-species study.Molecular brain · 2023Article
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- Novel immersive virtual reality experiences do not produce retroactive memory benefits for unrelated material.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Article
- Effects of exploring a novel environment on memory across the lifespan.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
- Emotional learning retroactively enhances item memory but distorts source attribution.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- A predictive account of how novelty influences declarative memory.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2021Article
- A Simplified Plasticity Model Based on Synaptic Tagging and Capture Theory: Simplified STC.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Exploration of a novel virtual environment improves memory consolidation in ADHD.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
One of the top challenges in education and neuroscience consists in translating laboratory results into strategies to improve learning and memory in teaching environments. In that sense, during the last two decades, researchers have discovered specific temporal windows around learning, during which the intervention with some experiences induces modulatory effects on the formation and/or persistence of memory. Based on these results, the aim of the present study was to design a specific strategy to improve the memory of students in a high-school scenario, by assessing the effect of a novel situation experienced close to learning. We found that the long-term memory about a geometrical figure was more precise in the group of students that faced a novel situation 1 h before or after learning the figure than the control group of students who did not face the novelty. This enhancement was probably triggered by processes acting on memory formation mechanisms that remained evident 45 days after learning, indicating that the improvement was sustained over time. In addition, our results showed that novelty no longer improved the memory if it was experienced 4 h before or after learning. However, far beyond this window of efficacy, when it was faced around 10 h after learning, the novel experience improved the memory persistence tested 7 days later. In summary, our findings characterized different temporal windows of the effectiveness of novelty acting on memory processing, providing a simple and inexpensive strategy that could be used to improve memory formation and persistence in high-school students.
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