Disruption of Ripple-Associated Hippocampal Activity During Rest Impairs Spatial Learning in the Rat

The hippocampus plays a key role in the acquisition of new memories for places and events. Evidence suggests that the consolidation of these memories is enhanced during sleep. At the neuronal level, reactivation of awake experience in the hippocampus during sharp-wave ripple events, characteristic o...

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Main Authors: Ego-Stengel, Valérie (Author), Wilson, Matthew A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor), RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons), 2012-04-27T20:17:45Z.
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