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🤝 To reunite 🏗️ To strengthen again 🧠 To restabilize memory
to reconsolidate

to reconsolidate

8.8
To make a memory stable again after you remember it so you keep it for a long time
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkənˈsɒlɪdeɪt/
  • Specialized
: reconsolidar
  • Basically each time, when each time you recall a memory, the memory has to reconsolidate itself again and it needs proteins to do that.

Basically each time, when each time you recall a memory, the memory has to reconsolidate itself again and it needs proteins to do that.

Examples

  • After recalling a childhood experience, she needed time for her mind to reconsolidate the memory securely.

  • When you remember a past event, your brain must reconsolidate the memory to store it again.

  • To ensure the details remain vivid, it is important to reconsolidate the memory after discussing it.

Synonyms

to restabilize
vsto reconsolidate
  • US
1 5.3

To make something steady again after it becomes unstable

is specific to recalled memories and restores them for long term storage

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

to erase
156 2.2

Remove all traces of something from memory or history

How Stable

to reconsolidate
  • Specialized
8.8
to stabilize
  • US
197 3.7

Surface Forms

reconsolidate infinitive
reconsolidated past
reconsolidated past participle
reconsolidating present participle
reconsolidates third person singular

Morphology

reconsolidate = consolidate (semi-transparent) = re + consolidate

Formally 're-' + 'consolidate' is compositional, but the use in memory research is a specialized technical sense that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Reconsolidate comes from re- 'again' and consolidate 'make solid', the same idea you see in solid. So to reconsolidate a memory is to make that memory 'solid' or stable again after it has been recalled.