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·June 11, 2021·2 min read

Dreams Reflect Multiple Memories and Anticipate Future Events

53% of dreams can be traced to memories, and of those, 50% are linked to memory sources of multiple previous life events. Additionally, 26% of dreams are associated with impending events. Future-orientated dreams become more prevalent during deeper stages of sleep.

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·May 25, 2021·2 min read

How the Brain Strengthens Memories During Sleep

The reactivation of learned material during slow oscillation/sleep spindle complexes, and the precision of SO-spindle coupling predicts how strong a memory will be reactivated in the brain.

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·February 24, 2021·5 min read

New Experiences Enhance Learning by Resetting Key Brain Circuit

Novel experiences dampen previous memory representations in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, facilitating flexible strategy encoding in mice.

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·June 5, 2020·3 min read

Dreaming with purpose

Hippocampal adult-born neurons are responsible for memory consolidation during REM sleep.

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·June 4, 2020·3 min read

Adult neurogenesis essential for sleep-induced memory consolidation

Adult born neurons are essential for synaptic structural remodeling and memory consolidation during REM sleep, a new mouse study found.

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·April 8, 2020·3 min read

False memories of crime appear real when retold to others

Study reveals people are only 53% likely to identify whether someone else in recounting and accurate or false memory of a crime.

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·March 5, 2020·4 min read

Scent exposure during sleep strengthens memory retention

Delivering a memory-inducing scent to one nostril while a person sleeps helps boost memory retention.

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·October 18, 2019·2 min read

How our memories stabilize while we sleep

Delta waves isolate assemblies of cortical neurons that play an essential role in long-term memory formation and consolidation.

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·June 26, 2019·2 min read

The secret of autobiographical memory is in assembly of cells

The size and shape of neural assemblies, and not the strength of signals processed by neurons or the order in which they fire, is the most critical element of recording episodic memory.

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·May 6, 2019·5 min read

Unexpectedly, big wins improve two kinds of memory

Unexpected rewards boost memories of specific events. The findings may have implications for treating memory problems associated with depression.

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·April 29, 2019·3 min read

What makes memories stronger? Rat Study

Hippocampal replay selectively enhances memory of highly rewarded locations in a familiar context.

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·April 25, 2019·3 min read

Sleep frees the hippocampus for new memory contents

A rapid memory system transition from the hippocampus to the posterior parietal cortex is stabilized as we sleep. Sleep and repeated rehearsal of memory jointly contribute to long-term memory consolidation.

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