TY - JOUR N2 - Intrusive memories are prominent features of post-traumatic stress disorder, but the mechanisms supporting their development, and their relationship to deliberate memories, are subject to competing theories. Are they strengthened examples of a unitary memory system, or fragmented representations lacking aspects of healthy memories? Given the importance of post-encoding processing in memory consolidation, we investigated the effects of a brief wakeful rest compared to a vigilance task immediately after the encoding of traumatic material on subsequent intrusive and deliberate memory. Across two experiments, participants watched emotionally negative film clips immediately followed by a brief wakeful rest or a simple vigilance (0-back) task. Brief wakeful rest had distinct effects on memory compared to the 0-back task, reducing intrusive memory frequency but not changing deliberate memory performance. These differential effects suggest that intrusive memory and deliberate memory reflect dissociable systems, arguing against unitary accounts. Our findings highlight the importance of post-encoding processing in the consolidation of traumatic material and the development of intrusive memories and provide a new perspective for interpreting mechanisms of therapeutic intervention. SN - 2045-2322 A1 - Hørlyck, LD A1 - Bisby, JA A1 - King, JA A1 - Burgess, N AV - public IS - 1 N1 - This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article?s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article?s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. TI - Wakeful rest compared to vigilance reduces intrusive but not deliberate memory for traumatic videos Y1 - 2019/09/16/ UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49634-8 ID - discovery10081900 PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL - 9 JF - Scientific Reports ER -