Topic: hippocampal interference

The consolidation of long-term memory is thought to critically rely on sleep. However, first evidence from a study in drosophila suggests that hunger as another brain state can benefit memory consolidation as well. Here, we report two human (within-subjects crossover) experiments examining the effects of fasting (versus satiated conditions) during a 10-hour post-encoding consolidation period on later recall of declarative and procedural memories in healthy men. In Experiment 1, participants (n = 16), after an 18.5-hour fasting period, encoded 3 memory tasks (verbal word paired associates, a vi