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SUBMITTER: Debiec J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1413871 | biostudies-other | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Debiec Jacek J Doyère Valérie V Nader Karim K Ledoux Joseph E JE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060221 9
Memory consolidation refers to a process by which newly learned information is made resistant to disruption. Traditionally, consolidation has been viewed as an event that occurs once in the life of a memory. However, considerable evidence now indicates that consolidated memories, when reactivated through retrieval, become labile (susceptible to disruption) again and undergo reconsolidation. Because memories are often interrelated in complex associative networks rather than stored in isolation, a ...[more]