Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relatively low-level
mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-level cognitive …

Background Psychological treatments occupy an important place in evidence-based mental
health treatments. Now is an exciting time to fuel treatment research: a pressing demand for …

The reactivation of a stored memory in the brain can make the memory transiently labile.
During the time it takes for the memory to restabilize (reconsolidate) the memory can either …

Research in nonhuman animals suggests that reactivation can induce a transient, unstable
state in a previously consolidated memory, during which the memory can be disrupted or …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Memories are readily distorted. What conditions allow memories to be altered? Converging
evidence implicates prediction error, or surprise, as a key mechanism that renders memories …

For the past two decades, it has generally been accepted that sleep benefits motor memory
consolidation processes. This notion, however, has been challenged by recent studies and …

Retrieving a memory can modify its influence on subsequent behavior. We develop a
computational theory of memory modification, according to which modification of a memory …

Accurately retrieving information from memory boosts later retrieval. However, retrieving
memories can also open a window to errors when erroneous information is retrieved or …

Through the process of “reconsolidation,” reminders can temporarily destabilize memories
and render them vulnerable to change. Recent rodent research has proposed that prediction …