Reconsolidation: A Possible Bridge between Cognitive and Neuroscientific Views of Memory

Abstract

The field of reconsolidation is one of the fastest growing fields in memory research. Students of memory find themselves in an extremely exciting period because memory research is beginning to be revealed at the neurobiological level as a fundamentally dynamic process. A neurobiological model of memory is emerging that can accommodate the dynamic nature of memory revealed in a long tradition of cognitive-oriented studies of human memory (Bartlett, 1932). This chapter will briefly address the history of consolidation and reconsolidation. It will describe the basis for which a reconsolidation phenomenon is thought to exist and address some central issues and unresolved problems of memory reconsolidation.