The influence of encoding strategy on associative memory consolidation across wake and sleep.

ABSTRACT: Sleep benefits memory consolidation. However, factors present at initial encoding may moderate this effect. Here, we examined the role that encoding strategy plays in subsequent memory consolidation during sleep. Eighty-nine participants encoded pairs of words using two different strategies. Each participant encoded half of the word pairs using an integrative visualization technique, where the two items were imagined in an integrated scene. The other half were encoded nonintegratively, with each word pair item visualized separately. Memory was tested before and after a period of nocturnal sleep (N = 47) or daytime wake (N = 42) via cued recall tests. Immediate memory performance was significantly better for word pairs encoded using the integrative strategy compared with the n

SUBMITTER: Denis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10547373 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature