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Neural dynamics of associative learning during human sleep
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posted on 2023-06-07, 06:46 authored by Andrés F Canales-Johnson, Emiliano MerloEmiliano Merlo, Tristan A Bekinschtein, Anat ArziRecent evidence indicate that humans can learn entirely new information during sleep. To elucidate the neural dynamics underlying sleep-learning we investigated brain activity during auditory-olfactory discriminatory associative learning in human sleep. We found that learning-related delta and sigma neural changes are involved in early acquisition stages, when new associations are being formed. In contrast, learning-related theta activity emerged in later stages of the learning process, after tone-odour associations were already established. These findings suggest that learning new associations during sleep is signalled by a dynamic interplay between slow-waves, sigma and theta activity.
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Cerebral CortexISSN
1047-3211Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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Neural dynamics of associative learning during human sleepDepartment affiliated with
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2019-09-27First Open Access (FOA) Date
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