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Semantic relatedness retroactively boosts memory and promotes memory interdependence across episodes.
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- Cortical knowledge structures guide word concept learning.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A role for context-cued study-phase retrievals in episodic memory updating.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Remembering change: Interdependence between change awareness and meaningful connection in achieving proactive facilitation.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Semantic relatedness proactively benefits learning, memory, and interdependence across episodes.eLife · 2024Article
- Time after Time: Preserving Temporal Memories When Experiences Repeat.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Semantic associations restore neural encoding mechanisms.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Conceptual relatedness promotes memory generalization at the cost of detailed recollection.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Interpolated retrieval retroactively increases recall and promotes cross-episode memory interdependence.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2023Article
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- Semantic relatedness retroactively boosts memory and promotes memory interdependence across episodes.eLife · 2022Article
- Associating the old with the new.eLife · 2022Article
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Abstract
Two fundamental issues in memory research concern when later experiences strengthen or weaken initial memories and when the two memories become linked or remain independent. A promising candidate for explaining these issues is semantic relatedness. Here, across five paired-associate learning experiments (N=1000), we systematically varied the semantic relatedness between initial and later cues, initial and later targets, or both. We found that learning retroactively benefited long-term memory performance for semantically related words (vs. unshown control words), and these benefits increased as a function of relatedness. Critically, memory dependence between initial and later pairs also increased with relatedness, suggesting that pre-existing semantic relationships promote interdependence for memories formed across episodes. We also found that modest retroactive benefits, but not interdependencies, emerged when subjects learned via studying rather than practice testing. These findings demonstrate that semantic relatedness during new learning retroactively strengthens old associations while scaffolding new ones into well-fortified memory traces.
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