The hippocampus is critical for learning and memory, relying in part on pattern separation
processes supported by the dentate gyrus (DG) to prevent interference from overlapping …

Prevailing theories of hippocampal function argue that memories are rapidly encoded by
non-overlapping memory traces. Concurrently, the hippocampus has been argued to …

Sleep supports the consolidation of episodic memory. It is, however, a matter of ongoing
debate how this effect is established, because, so far, it has been demonstrated almost …

Sleep plays a crucial role in memory stabilization and integration, yet many people obtain
insufficient sleep. This review assesses what is known about the level of sleep deprivation …

Memory reactivation during sleep is thought to facilitate memory consolidation. Most sleep
reactivation research has examined how reactivation of specific facts, objects, and …

The episodic context account (Gaskell et al., 2019) proposes that the act of language
comprehension gives rise to an episodic discourse representation, and that this …

Newly encoded memories are labile and consolidate over time. The importance of sleep in
memory consolidation has been well known for almost a decade. However, recent research …

Highlights•Consolidation supports remembering specifics and generalizing across
experiences.•Sleep, and slow-wave sleep in particular, is important for memory …

Episodic memory is reconstructive and is thus prone to false memory formation. Although
false memories are proposed to develop via associative processes, the nature of their neural …

Mnemonic discrimination is the process of separating similar but distinct experiences and
memories in the brain. This process seems to be differently modulated by retention periods …