Reactivation of Hippocampal Ensemble Memories During Sleep
- 29 July 1994
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 265 (5172), 676-679
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8036517
Abstract
Simultaneous recordings were made from large ensembles of hippocampal "place cells" in three rats during spatial behavioral tasks and in slow-wave sleep preceding and following these behaviors. Cells that fired together when the animal occupied particular locations in the environment exhibited an increased tendency to fire together during subsequent sleep, in comparison to sleep episodes preceding the behavioral tasks. Cells that were inactive during behavior, or that were active but had non-overlapping spatial firing, did not show this increase. This effect, which declined gradually during each post-behavior sleep session, may result from synaptic modification during waking experience. Information acquired during active behavior is thus re-expressed in hippocampal circuits during sleep, as postulated by some theories of memory consolidation.Keywords
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