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===Reconsolidation hypothesis===

The reconsolidation hypothesis claims that objects encoded into long term memory experience a new period of consolidation, or the time and resource expended to stabilize a memory object, upon each recollection. This is in opposition to the classical consolidation hypothesis which regards consolidation as a one-time event, following the first encoding of a memory. A memory item in this hypothesis, upon reactivation, destabilizes for a brief period and thereafter invokes the neuronal processes requisite for stabilization.<ref name=d>{{cite journal | last1 = Morris | first1 = R. G. M. | last2 = Inglis | first2 = J. | last3 = Ainge | first3 = J. A. | last4 = Olverman | first4 = H. J. | last5 = Tulloch | first5 = J. | last6 = Dudai | first6 = Y. | last7 = Kelly | first7 = P. A. T. | year = 2006 | title = Memory reconsolidation: Sensitivity of spatial memory to inhibition of protein synthesis in dorsal hippocampus during encoding and retrieval | journal = Neuron | volume = 50 | issue = 3| pages = 479–489 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.012 | pmid=16675401| doi-access = free }}</ref>

The reconsolidation hypothesis has lingered since the 1960s; however, a 2000 study, entitled "Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval", examining fear conditioning in rats, has provided evidence in its favor.<ref name=e>{{cite journal | last1 = Nader | first1 = Karim | last2 = Schafe | first2 = Glenn E. | last3 = Le Doux | first3 = Joseph E. | year = 2000 | title = Fear Memories Require Protein Synthesis In The Amygdala For Reconsolidation After Retrieval | journal = Nature | volume = 406 | issue = 6797| pages = 722–726 | doi = 10.1038/35021052 | pmid=10963596| bibcode = 2000Natur.406..722N }}</ref> After receiving post-retrieval an intra-amygdalar infusion of a known amnesic agent, anisomycin, rats failed to recall a rapidly learned fear memory.<ref name=e /> Hippocampal lesions formed post-retrieval affected the rats' fear conditioning in a similar manner.<ref name=e />