Review
Neurosciences
Gui Xue
Summary: In recent years, neural research on memory has shifted from remembering to reconstruction, revealing the transformative nature of memory during encoding, maintenance, consolidation, and retrieval processes. These transformations play a crucial role in supporting long-term retention and generalization of memory.
PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
A. C. van der Heijden, O. A. van den Heuvel, Y. D. van der Werf, L. M. Talamini, H. J. F. van Marle
Summary: This article reviews the potential of targeted memory reactivation (TMR) as a new sleep-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It provides background information on the memory and sleep principles underlying PTSD, as well as the current applications and conditional factors of TMR. The outstanding questions and most promising experimental avenues for testing TMR to treat traumatic memories are also discussed.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Mareike A. Gann, Nina Dolfen, Bradley R. King, Edwin M. Robertson, Genevieve Albouy
Summary: This study investigated the effect of prefrontal cortex stimulation on motor memory consolidation. The results showed that active stimulation hindered fast motor memory consolidation and altered the reactivation process in the brain, as well as the link between brain activity and behavioral markers of consolidation.
Review
Clinical Neurology
Kevin J. MacDonald, Kimberly A. Cote
Summary: Sleep after learning has beneficial effects on memory retrieval, but the relationship between sleep and memory is complex with variability. This paper proposes a hypothesis regarding the effects of sleep on memory reinforcement and refinement, suggesting that non-REM sleep primarily contributes to memory reinforcement while REM sleep primarily contributes to memory refinement.
SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS
(2021)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Tony J. Cunningham, Robert Stickgold, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Summary: This article reviews the research on the influence of sleep on different stages of emotional memory processing, identifies problematic overlaps in traditional sleep-wake study designs, and highlights areas for future research. It aims to be a valuable resource for hypothesis generation and promote important future research in understanding the relationship between sleep and emotional memory processing.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Eugenio Manassero, Alessandra Giordano, Erika Raimondo, Alessandro Cicolin, Benedetto Sacchetti
Summary: Past experiences shape our ability to handle future dangers, and sleep plays a crucial role in consolidating threatening event memories. Lack of sleep may lead to expanded threat generalization to new stimuli. These findings are important for understanding implicit and explicit memory related to threat, as well as the impact of sleep deprivation on these processes.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mohan Sarovar
Summary: Using quantum computers to accelerate the generation of random numbers is a clever strategy that can effectively utilize the upcoming availability of quantum computers.
Article
Cell Biology
Livia Autore, James D. O'Leary, Clara Ortega-de San Luis, Tomas J. Ryan
Summary: This study investigates the impact of forgetting on neuronal encoding in mice. The results show that forgetting leads to decreased reactivation of brain cells, but optogenetic stimulation can induce memory retrieval. Forgotten neuronal ensembles can be reinstated through the presentation of similar or related environmental information. These findings suggest that forgetting is a reversible and updatable process.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Shira Klorfeld-Auslender, Yaniv Paz, Ilana Shinder, Jonathan Rosenblatt, Ilan Dinstein, Nitzan Censor
Summary: Research shows that individuals with ASD can effectively learn and generalize to untrained domains through brief memory reactivations, providing a unique benefit for their skill learning.
Article
Neurosciences
Satoshi Kida
Summary: Memory retrieval is a dynamic process that involves reconsolidation, where retrieved memories return to a labile state and are re-stored. This discovery challenges the traditional view of memory consolidation and suggests that memory can be modified through reconsolidation. Extinction, on the other hand, weakens a conditioned fear memory through a new inhibitory learning process. In our research, we investigated the relationship between memory reconsolidation and extinction at behavioral, cellular, and molecular levels, finding that they have opposite effects on fear memory and interact with each other in a memory transition process.
BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sam Audrain, Adrian W. Gilmore, Jenna M. Wilson, Daniel L. Schacter, Alex Martin
Summary: Mounting evidence suggests distinct functional contributions of the anterior and posterior hippocampus to autobiographical memory retrieval, but how these subregions function under different retrieval demands as memories age is not yet understood.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Xiaonan L. Liu, Charan Ranganath
Summary: This study investigates the effects of retrieval practice on retention of untested items, finding that retrieval practice can facilitate the retention of unpracticed, temporally close pairmates, but impair the retention of temporally far, semantically unrelated pairmates.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Candela Zorzo, Jorge L. Arias, Marta Mendez
Summary: Studies suggest that in rodents, normal forgetting may occur during remote spatial retrieval, involving changes in morphology and functionality of neocortical areas, hippocampus, and other brain structures. These results help us better understand the timing of memory maintenance and normal forgetting, outlining the implicated brain areas.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Virginia L. Flanagin, Svenja Klinkowski, Svenja Brodt, Melanie Graetsch, Carolina Roselli, Stefan Glasauer, Steffen Gais
Summary: This study investigates the contribution of the hippocampal formation and neocortex to declarative memory and finds that their contributions vary depending on the encoding associations used. Functional magnetic resonance imaging results show common activity in the posterior parietal cortex, particularly the precuneus, during all three types of encoding associations. Additionally, the retrosplenial cortex is active during recall of spatial and autobiographical associations, while the hippocampus is only activated during recall of autobiographical associations. These findings support the critical role of the precuneus in episodic memory storage and retrieval.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniela Ramirez Butavand, Maria F. Rodriguez, Maria Cifuentes, Magdalena Miranda, Cristian Garcia Bauza, Pedro Bekinschtein, Fabricio Ballarini
Summary: In this study, the effect of acute and chronic exercise on long-term spatial memory was evaluated. It was found that exercise can improve long-term memory retention for short distances, but not for long distances. Additionally, individuals who engage in regular physical activity showed better memory for short distances compared to those who did not.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Taylor W. Schmitz, Marta M. Correia, Catarina S. Ferreira, Andrew P. Prescot, Michael C. Anderson
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2017)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yuhua Guo, Taylor W. Schmitz, Marieke Mur, Catarina S. Ferreira, Michael C. Anderson
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Alejandra Marful, Jenny C. Gomez Amado, Catarina S. Ferreira, M. Teresa Bajo
EXPERIMENTAL AGING RESEARCH
(2015)
Article
Neurosciences
Catarina S. Ferreira, Alejandra Marful, Tobias Staudigl, Teresa Bajo, Simon Hanslmayr
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2014)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Catarina S. Ferreira, Maria J. Maraver, Simon Hanslmayr, Teresa Bajo
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
C. S. Ferreira, I. Charest, M. Wimber
Article
Neurosciences
Federica Meconi, Juan Linde-Domingo, Catarina S. Ferreira, Sebastian Michelmann, Bernhard Staresina, Ian Apperly, Simon Hanslmayr
Summary: Through two experiments, the study found that memories play a significant role in empathy, as participants' experiences in empathetic tasks can trigger the reactivation of their autobiographical memories, leading to heightened emotional responses.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dace Apsvalka, Catarina S. Ferreira, Taylor W. Schmitz, James B. Rowe, Michael C. Anderson
Summary: This study demonstrates that inhibitory control activates the right dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to suppress diverse content, and these regions play a crucial role in action and thought stopping.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Catarina S. S. Ferreira, Maria Wimber
Summary: Remembering facilitates future remembering, and the testing effect is one of the most robust findings in memory research. This study investigates whether memory for visual materials benefits from retrieval-mediated learning, and finds that meaningful object images benefit from testing, particularly at long delays. These findings support theories proposing that retrieval's benefits arise from spreading activation in semantic networks.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Catarina S. Ferreira, Alejandra Marful, Teresa Bajo
