Causal Contribution of Awake Post-encoding Processes to Episodic Memory Consolidation.

ABSTRACT: Stable representations of past experience are thought to depend on processes that unfold after events are initially encoded into memory. Post-encoding reactivation and hippocampal-cortical interactions are leading candidate mechanisms thought to support memory retention and stabilization across hippocampal-cortical networks. Although putative consolidation mechanisms have been observed during sleep and periods of awake rest, the direct causal contribution of awake consolidation mechanisms to later behavior is unclear, especially in humans. Moreover, it has been argued that observations of putative consolidation processes are epiphenomenal and not causally important, yet there are few tools to test the functional contribution of these mechanisms in humans. Here, we combined transcranial mag

SUBMITTER: Tambini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511431 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature