Formation and suppression of acoustic memories during human sleep

Though memory and sleep are related, it is still unclear whether new memories can be formed during sleep. Here, authors show that people could learn new sounds during REM or light non-REM sleep, but that learning was suppressed when sounds were played during deep NREM sleep.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas Andrillon, Daniel Pressnitzer, Damien Léger, Sid Kouider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00071-z