A huge extra thank you to all the team who made this possible @fabian31415.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social @bstaresina.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social

Hope to see it published soon 🚀

Altogether, our findings unveiled the role of respiration as a pacemaker during memory retrieval, modulating the neural aspects of successful recall and their consequent behavioral response.

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Finally, we showed that respiration does not only coordinate α/ß power and memory reactivation separately, but also their interplay. Exclusively in remembered trials, stronger power desynchronizations led to higher memory decodability, again before exhalation troughs.

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We further demonstrate that respiration has an impact in concomitant memory reactivation, with memory decodability increasing just before exhalation troughs.

Additionally, the coupling strength between memory reactivation and respiration across trials was associated with memory performance.

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Then, we checked that respiration impacts memory retrieval: trials where participants inhaled during cue presentation and subsequently exhaled present better memory performance.

Similarly, we examined its modulation of the EEG, showing α/ß power decreases along the respiratory cycle.

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First, we identified the key signatures of successful memory retrieval. We showed a stronger desynchronization of the α/ß band in remembered vs. not remembered trials, and memory decodability happening after cue onset.

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Past evidence showed that respiration has an impact in memory retrieval. However, the neural modulation by which respiration leads to an effect in memory recall remains unknown. Here, we assess this issue by analyzing EEG and respiratory recordings from participants performing a memory task.

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