Neural reactivation in parietal cortex enhances memory for episodically linked information.

ABSTRACT: Remembering is a complex process that involves recalling specific details, such as who you were with when you celebrated your last birthday, as well as contextual information, such as the place where you celebrated. It is well established that the act of remembering enhances long-term retention of the retrieved information, but the neural and cognitive mechanisms that drive memory enhancement are not yet understood. One possibility is that the process of remembering results in reactivation of the broader episodic context. Consistent with this idea, in two experiments, we found that multiple retrieval attempts enhanced long-term retention of both the retrieved object and the nontarget object that shared scene context, compared with a restudy control. Using representational similarity analys

SUBMITTER: Jonker TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205442 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature