Fig. 3.

Mean (±SEM) number of correctly remembered details during the free-recall test for each reactivation group across all three retention intervals: 1 h, 9 days, and 28 days. Retention performance significantly decreased across retention intervals (ps < 0.05), again suggesting forgetting over time. However, overall, both the Descriptive and Component groups recalled significantly more details than the participants in the Distractor group (ps < 0.05). At the longest retention interval, the participants in both the Descriptive and Component groups recalled significantly more details than the participants in both the Distractor and Control groups (ps < 0.05) and the relative retention enhancement exceeded 100%. Thus, the descriptive and component reactivations successfully mitigated forgetting on this memory measure as well