Default mode network connectivity predicts individual differences in long-term forgetting: Evidence for storage degradation, not retrieval failure
bioRxiv August 24, 2025 Yinan Xu, C. Prat, Florian Sense et al. preprint
Despite the importance of memories in everyday life and the progress made in understanding how they are encoded and retrieved, the neural processes by which declarative memories are maintained or forgotten remain elusive. Part of the problem is that it is empirically difficult to measure the rate at which memories fade, even between repeated presentations of the source of the memory. Without...