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SUBMITTER: Brawn TP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6079047 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180806 1
Reconsolidation theory describes memory formation as an ongoing process that cycles between labile and stable states. Though sleep is critical for the initial consolidation of a memory, there has been little evidence that sleep facilitates reconsolidation. We now demonstrate in two experiments that a sleep-consolidated memory can be destabilized if the memory is reactivated by retrieval. The destabilized memory, which can be impaired if an interference task is encountered after, but not before, ...[more]