Wakeful rest benefits memory when materials can be rehearsed
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Wakeful rest is a brief (e.g., 10 minutes), quiet period of minimal stimulation, which has been shown to facilitate memory performance, compared to a distractor task. prior studies have not fully ruled out a controlled rehearsal mechanism, which might also occur during wakeful rest attempted to repl
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- Wakeful rest is a brief (e.g., 10 minutes), quiet period of minimal stimulation, which has been shown to facilitate memory performance, compared to a distractor task.
- prior studies have not fully ruled out a controlled rehearsal mechanism, which might also occur during wakeful rest
- attempted to replicate the wakeful rest effect under conditions that more strictly limit the possibility of rehearsal
- six experiments, we manipulated parameters of a standard wakeful rest paradigm, including the type of target materials (word lists or abstract shapes), intentionality of encoding (incidental or intentional), and final retrieval delay (immediate or delayed)
- tested both younger and older adults to test whether these effects are consistent across the adult lifespan
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