Autobiographical thinking interferes with episodic memory consolidation.

New episodic memories are retained better if learning is followed by a few minutes of wakeful rest than by the encoding of novel external information. Novel encoding is said to interfere with the consolidation of recently acquired episodic memories. Here we report four experiments in which we examin...

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Main Authors: Michael Craig, Sergio Della Sala, Michaela Dewar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24736665/pdf/?tool=EBI