Reactivation and Consolidation of Memory During Sleep  

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Rasch, Björn ; Born, Jan

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 17 no. 03 (Jun. 2008), page 188-192.
Topik: Sleep; Declarative Memory; Consolidation; Reactivation; Slow-Wave Sleep; Hippocampo-Neocortical Dialogue
Fulltext: 03. Reactivation and Consolidation of Memory During Sleep.pdf (221.03KB)

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Recent research has shown compellingly that sleep supports the consolidation of declarative memories for events and facts. During consolidation, memories are stabilized against future interference and undergo qualitative changes with regard to their ‘‘explicitness’’ and underlying neural representation. In this article, we argue that declarative memory consolidation during sleep is based on covert reactivations of newly encoded memory traces in the hippocampus. During slow-wave sleep (SWS), the prominent slow oscillations act to synchronize the repeated reactivation of the newly encoded representations in hippocampal networks with the generation of spindle activity in the thalamus, supporting changes in neocortical networks that contribute to long-term memory storage. In this view, sleep plays an active role in the consolidation of memories, in which the neuronal reactivation of newly acquired memories is critical for the redistribution and integration of these memories into the network of preexisting long-term memories.

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