Sleep spindles mediate hippocampal-neocortical coupling during long-duration ripples

Sleep is pivotal for memory consolidation. According to two-stage accounts, memory traces are gradually translocated from hippocampus to neocortex during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. Mechanistically, this information transfer is thought to rely on interactions between thalamocortical spindle...

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Main Authors: Hong-Viet Ngo, Juergen Fell, Bernhard Staresina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/57011