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ERIC Number: EJ1482176
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Dec
Pages: 10
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EISSN: EISSN-2056-7936
Available Date: 2025-08-28
Offline Consolidation Mechanisms of the Retrieval Practice Effect: An Analysis Based on EEG Signal Characteristics
Jing Zhang1,2; Xiaoning Huo3; Hongbo Lv3; Jiahua Xu4; Xiaofeng Ma1,5,6
npj Science of Learning, v10 Article 63 2025
This study investigated the role of offline consolidation, specifically sleep, in transforming memories strengthened by retrieval practice into stable long-term representations. Forty-eight participants learned weakly associated Chinese word pairs via restudy(RS), retrieval practice with feedback (RP), and retrieval practice without feedback (NRP). After encoding, a nap group slept while a wake group remained awake. Recall was tested after 90 min and 24 h. Critically, only for RP items did the nap group show significantly less forgetting (i.e., a reduced recall change rate) than the wake group. Furthermore, the RP recall change rate correlated positively with sleep-specific neurophysiological markers (fast spindle density and fast spindle-ndPAC coupling). These findings demonstrate that initially labile memories formed by RP undergo offline, sleep-dependent consolidation (involving neural replay indexed by spindles), integrated with online processes, to achieve long-term stability.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Northwest Normal University, School of Psychology, Lanzhou, China; 2Qingdao Binhai University, School of Nursing, Qingdao, China; 3Third People’s Hospital of Lanzhou, Lanzhou, China; 4Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Psychiatry Research Center, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Beijing, China; 5Key Laboratory of Education Digitalization of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China; 6Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavioral and Mental health, Lanzhou, China