Postretrieval new learning does not reliably induce human memory updating via reconsolidation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 5206-5211

  Hardwicke, Tom E ^a   Taqi, Mahdi ^a   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Memory updating; Reconsolidation; Replication; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VALIDITY; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84966397089     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601440113     Document Type: Article

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