Default mode network connectivity predicts individual differences in long-term forgetting: Evidence for storage degradation, not retrieval failure.

ABSTRACT: Despite the importance of memories in everyday life and the progress made in understanding how they are encoded and retrieved, the neural processes by which declarative memories are maintained or forgotten remain elusive. Part of the problem is that it is empirically difficult to measure the rate at which memories fade, even between repeated presentations of the source of the memory. Without such a ground-truth measure, it is hard to identify the corresponding neural correlates. This study addresses this problem by comparing individual patterns of functional connectivity against behavioral differences in forgetting speed derived from computational phenotyping. Specifically, the individual-specific values of the speed of forgetting in long-term memory (LTM) were estimated for 33 participant

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12448966 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature