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Destroying memories to strengthen them

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A paper in this issue reports that the core mechanisms that strengthen memories have more in common with the mechanisms that support reconsolidation than those that participate in their initial storage.

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Figure 1: Reconsolidation and memory strengthening: procedural and process similarities.

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  1. The author is in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, UCB 345, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA. Jrudy@psych.colorado.edu,

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Rudy, J. Destroying memories to strengthen them. Nat Neurosci 11, 1241–1242 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1108-1241

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