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sensory reactivation hypothesis  

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  • The hypothesis that the sensory brain regions activated during memory encoding are reactivated during memory retrieval. In contrast to false memories, true memories are thought to reactivate these sensory areas associated with experienced events.

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  • • Slotnick, S. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2004). A sensory signature that distinguishes true from false memories. Nature Neuroscience, 7(6), 664–672. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1252

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Slotnick, S. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2006). The nature of memory related activity in early visual areas. Neuropsychologia, 44(14), 2874–2886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.021

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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