What role does sleep have in memory consolidation?
Reactivation of sensory neurons that were stimulated during wakefulness:
“Causal role for sleep-dependent reactivation of learning-activated sensory ensembles for fear memory consolidation” (Clawson et al., 2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21471-2
Reactivation of the emotional aspects of memory:
“Reactivations of emotional memory in the hippocampus-amygdala system during sleep” Gabrielle Girardeau, György Buzsaki 2017. https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4637
How does sleep homeostatically "declutter" the brain?
“Synaptic scaling in sleep” László Acsády and Kenneth D. Harris (2017) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam7917
Can memories be induced during sleep?
Apparently so!...
“Explicit memory creation during sleep demonstrates a causal role of place cells in navigation” Gaeten de Lavilleon, Karim Benchenane, et al. (2015) https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3970
How does rhythmic activity during sleep regulate memory consolidation?
“Dueling Brain Waves Anchor or Erase Learning During Sleep” (Quanta Magazine) https://www.quantamagazine.org/dueling-brain-waves-anchor-or-erase-learning-during-sleep-20191024/
Original paper: “Competing Roles of Slow Oscillations and Delta Waves in Memory Consolidation versus Forgetting” Jaekyung Kim et al. (2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867419309596?via%3Dihub
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