Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep

The hippocampus plays an essential role in encoding self-experienced events into memory. During sleep, neural activity in the hippocampus related to a recent experience has been observed to spontaneously reoccur, and this "replay" has been postulated to be important for memory consolidatio...

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Main Authors: Bender, Daniel A. (Contributor), Wilson, Matthew A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2016-05-25T13:24:36Z.
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