Lane et al. propose an integrative model for the reconsolidation of traces in their timely and impressive article. This commentary draws attention to trade-offs between accuracy and self-narrative integrity in the model. The trade-offs concern the sense of agency in memory and its role in both implicit and explicit memory reconsolidation, rather than balances concerning degrees of emotional aro...

The challenges we face in our economies and societies in our divided unsustainable world are perhaps greater than at any other time. These challenges have arisen because of how we have been trained to think, plan and act as individuals and how we have applied this training to the way we organise and govern ourselves. We have thought, planned, organised, governed and acted as though our world is...

This experimental study investigated the learners’ integrative acquisition of obligatory overt subjects and subject-verb clause agreement in English as an L2. In L1 acquisition research, correlations between superficially unrelated linguistic phenomena are analyzed in terms of integrative effects. For instance, in English L1 acquisition, there is evidence for an integrative appearance of subjec...

Using principles of completive and integrative self-sorting, a clean supramolecule-to-supramolecule transformation is realised that involves fusion of a 3-component rectangle and a 2-component equilateral triangle into a 5-component scalene triangle. While the spontaneous process takes 15 h at 25 °C, the catalytic transformation is completed within 1 h.

Matthew W. Self and Pieter R. Roelfsema Department of Vision & Cognition, The Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Psychiatry Department, Academic Medical Cente...