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SCIENCE
Volume 330, Issue 6000, Pages 97-101Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193125
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- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University
- NSF [BCS 0823624, BCS 0823495]
- NIH [HD057884-01A2]
- 111 Project of China [B07008]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0823624] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0823495] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD057884] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Repeated study improves memory, but the underlying neural mechanisms of this improvement are not well understood. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and representational similarity analysis of brain activity, we found that, compared with forgotten items, subsequently remembered faces and words showed greater similarity in neural activation across multiple study in many brain regions, including (but not limited to) the regions whose mean activities were correlated with subsequent memory. This result addresses a longstanding debate in the study of memory by showing that successful episodic memory encoding occurs when the same neural representations are more precisely reactivated across study episodes, rather than when patterns of activation are more variable across time.
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