They found that following sleep deprivation, spine size and density were unchanged. But given sufficient capacity, all should be remembered. Wilhelm and colleagues [127] had participants learn a list of word pairs. Emotional reactivity associated with negative images is also preserved over sleep [133]. As expected, place cell ensembles associated with the task were reactivated during sleep. This result suggests that NREM and REM sleep are both important to the overall maintenance of synaptic homeostasis. Following exposure to a tutor’s song, juvenile zebra finches reproduce the tutor song, an important step in sensorimotor development. In this study, hippocampal cells were recorded while rats traversed familiar or novel environments. In years since a taxonomy of memory has been established that largely distinguishes declarative learning (learning of facts and events) from motor skill learning and other forms of procedural learning [138]. By applying transcranial direct current stimulation with an oscillating frequency of  .75 Hz during early NREM sleep, naturally occurring slow oscillations were enhanced. A classic example is the ventriloquism aftereffect, which emerges following both cumulative (long-term) and trial-wise exposure to spatially discrepant multisensory stimuli. The full range of this complex capacity’s neuroanato… While the majority of spindles are fast spindles and found in NREM-2, slow spindles are also found in stage 3 of NREM sleep, known more commonly as slow wave sleep (SWS). The activation associated with recent memories in conjunction with relevant past memories again results in a global increase in synaptic weight, but binding of related memories results in areas of local downscaling. They suggest that the interconnected neural networks are susceptible to unwanted, or “parasitic,” connections and these may be detected and pruned over sleep. The amygdala is reactivated during REM sleep. Born, R. Hoeckesfeld, S. Fokuhl, F. Hohagen, and K. Junghanns, “Midlife decline in declarative memory consolidation is correlated with a decline in slow wave sleep,”, A. Takashima, K. M. Petersson, F. Rutters et al., “Declarative memory consolidation in humans: a prospective functional magnetic resonance imaging study,”, S. A. Cairney, S. J. Durrant, R. J. learning occurred either in the presence or absence of an odor. A life full of unconnected events, of errors that do not lead to any lessons and of emotions without the ability to remember them is no life at all. Sleep has been shown to consolidate and, in some cases, preferentially enhance memory for negative emotional images relative to neutral images [129–132]. One might imagine that the flood of product descriptions viewed when online shopping in the evening is integrated with our stored memories to isolate the ideal features based on the future uses the product might serve. In spite of HM’s spared ability, many forms of motor skill learning are now thought to engage the hippocampus after all. from Part I - Cognition, brain and evolution By Binyamin Hochner ... A learning and memory area in the octopus brain manifests a vertebrate-like long-term Journal of Neurophysiology, 90 (5): 3547 –3554. One well-known form of brain-based classification is the “tagging” of emotional … Following overnight sleep or daytime wake, participants were presented with videos of the old spider as well as novel spiders. Acetylcholine has a known role in memory formation during waking and it has been proposed that high levels of acetylcholine suggest a memory function of REM sleep [37, 38]. Collectively, these studies illustrate that sleep-dependent consolidation is selective. SWS spindles occur within slow oscillations. The Neuroanatomical, Neurophysiological and Psychological Basis of Memory: Current Models and Their Origins Published in: Frontiers in Pharmacology, June 2017 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00438: Pubmed ID: 28713278. On the other hand, acetylcholine levels are low during SWS and high during REM, close to waking levels [36]. Although correct responses steadily decreased over waking intervals of 1, 2, 4, or 8 hrs, recall was largely unchanged over 12 and 24 hr intervals, intervals that contained sleep. Collectively, the function of the sleeping brain should entice us to sleep. Whether neocortical replay outside the hippocampus has the potential for creative recombinations is not known. Whether a motor skill learning task engages the hippocampus is likely to depend on a number of factors. Immediately following encoding, to-be-forgotten words were recalled less than to-be-remembered words. With eight new chapters and 130 pages of fresh material, this second edition covers a wide range of topics, including movement disorders and current theories of motor … Shank and Margoliash [61] found that incorporation of the tutor song was the greatest following intervals containing sleep. Whether synaptic tagging by the amygdala is completely distinct from the theta dissociation for events with future relevance is not yet clear. First, explicit awareness of what is being learned in a procedural task is likely to engage cognitive control utilizing hippocampal resources [154]. Many authors have reviewed the behavioral evidence supporting the role of sleep in memory and cognition in humans (e.g., [13, 14]). Rats were trained to run to the right or left of a track depending on which of two sounds were presented at the start of the trial. The Neurophysiological Basis of Learning and Memory in Advanced Invertebrates. For example, in a visuomotor adaptation task in which participants learned to make reaches with an inverted-map joystick, performance changes over sleep and wake were equivalent. However, infants who slept more than 30 mins in this 4 hr interval (“sleep” group) were biased by the first string presented. [62] demonstrated this using a go/no-go task where one song segment served as a “go” cue and responses were rewarded with food access while another song segment served as a “no-go” cue and responses to it were punished with an interval of lights out. In retrospect, it seems that Ebbinghaus made the first observation of the benefit of sleep on memory that errant data point reflected reduced forgetting following an interval that contained sleep. We begin this paper with a brief review of the intellectual history of examining behavior from a biological perspective. Here, too, there are mixed reports of advantages of both SWS [127] and REM [124]. Based on subjective (disgust, fearfulness, and unpleasantness) and objective measures (corrugator muscle activity, skin conductance response, and heart rate), fear of the exposed spider decreased across the experiment. Born, and S. J. Sara, “Sustained increase in hippocampal sharp-wave ripple activity during slow-wave sleep after learning,”, W. Ramadan, O. Eschenko, and S. J. Sara, “Hippocampal sharp wave/ripples during sleep for consolidation of associative memory,”, J. L. McClelland, B. L. McNaughton, and R. C. O'Reilly, “Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory,”, R. E. Clark, N. J. Broadbent, S. M. Zola, and L. R. Squire, “Anterograde amnesia and temporally graded retrograde amnesia for a nonspatial memory task after lesions of hippocampus and subiculum,”, P. W. Frankland and B. Bontempi, “The organization of recent and remote memories,”, A. G. Siapas and M. A. Wilson, “Coordinated interactions between hippocampal ripples and cortical spindles during slow-wave sleep,”, M. Rosanova and D. Ulrich, “Pattern-specific associative long-term potentiation induced by a sleep spindle-related spike train,”, M. Steriade, “Coherent oscillations and short-term plasticity in corticothalamic networks,”, C. Schmidt, P. Peigneux, V. Muto et al., “Encoding difficulty promotes postlearning changes in sleep spindle activity during napping,”, M. Mölle, L. Marshall, S. Gais, and J. Forgetting has been studied in the psychological literature with two paradigms, retrieval induced forgetting [121] and directed forgetting [122], both of which have now been examined with respect to sleep. In this task, participants are presented with lists of words to learn. However, others have proposed that generalization comes about over REM sleep. Likewise, sleep is beneficial to discrimination learning in adult starlings. Moreover, when animals were given an interference trial before recall of the food reward location, performance remained accurate if sleep occurred following learning. Collectively, these studies support a role of sleep in memory consolidation. Performance on this visuospatial learning task shows similar sleep benefits to those seen in word-pair learning: participants recalled the location of more items following sleep than following an equivalent period spent awake [49, 50]. REM’s discovery is another noteworthy tale in the history of sleep research. But rather than working independently, slow oscillations bind together the content of ripples and spindles. While local field potentials do not directly measure synaptic potentiation, changes in global firing rate across the hippocampus would largely be expected to decrease in conjunction with downscaling. However, importantly, this activation is led by hippocampal reactivation of related place cells [151]. In the case of spider exposure therapy; for instance, neural replay would reinforce the veridical memory for the exposed spider but this mechanism should not necessarily enhance the memory for (or decrease reactivity to) an unexposed spider. However, the difference in recall between the nap and wake groups was driven by greater recall of to-be-remembered words in the nap group relative to the wake group. It is evolutionarily advantageous to avoid items that pose a threat. Francis Crick, best known for his part in the Nobel prize-winning discovery of the DNA helix, also had a fascination with neuroscience and, specifically, memory. This “sleep to forget” hypothesis remained largely theoretical until very recently when a series of behavioral studies have tested its validity. We tested whether hippocampal engagement at encoding might predict the presence of later sleep-dependent consolidation of motor skill learning. The experimental odor was represented during subsequent SWS for a subset of the participants. In the past decade, a number of studies have replicated Ebbinghaus’s observation with more participants than Jenkins and Dallenbach (who had only two) and more scrupulous control conditions. A to-be-remembered cue has future relevance, as the participant is aware of the need to recall it later. The lines between the two can blur easily. Marked changes in neural activity and the neurochemical amalgam allow for cognitive processing to occur in ways that are not possible over wake. Following a 12 hr interval spent awake or a 12 hr interval containing overnight sleep, participants freely drew cards with the goal of “winning the most money.” We found that participants in the sleep group made more optimal draws (choices from the “good” decks) than those in the wake group. A. Hobson, “The neurobiology of sleep: genetics, cellular physiology and subcortical networks,”, H. Kametani and H. Kawamura, “Alterations in acetylcholine release in the rat hippocampus during sleep-wakefulness detected by intracerebral dialysis,”, M. E. Hasselmo, “Neuromodulation: acetylcholine and memory consolidation,”, M. P. Walker, “A refined model of sleep and the time course of memory formation,”, R. W. McCarley, “Neurobiology of REM and NREM sleep,”, J. G. Jenkins and K. M. Dallenbach, “Oblivescence during sleep and waking,”, S. Gais, G. Albouy, M. Boly et al., “Sleep transforms the cerebral trace of declarative memories,”, L. Marshall, M. Mölle, M. Hallschmid, and J. Importantly, presentation of learning cues during SWS is associated with increased hippocampus activation during sleep [49]. Ours [4, 7] and other [42–44] studies have ruled out this alternative explanation. Walker and Stickgold [14] proposed that REM sleep supports memory unitization (the binding of elements into a single representation), memory assimilation (the integration of new information into existing concepts or schema), and memory abstraction (the isolation of concepts or schema from new information). When children learn a matrix of locations in a visuospatial task in the morning, memory is superior in the afternoon following a mid-day nap compared to memory following an equivalent interval awake [57]. Thus, we propose that the level of engagement of the hippocampus during encoding can account for discrepancies in the literature regarding consolidation of motor skill learning. Recall following the break was the greatest for those individuals who slept and were aware of the subsequent need to recall the pairs. Generalization is “a process that allows organisms to build on prior experience and respond flexibly to new information outside of the context in which a memory was initially formed [99].” Generalization of veridical knowledge underlies inference, statistical extraction, and gist extraction. Born, and U. Wagner, “Sleep enhances false memories depending on general memory performance,”, S. McKeon, E. F. Pace-Schott, and R. M. Spencer, “Interaction of sleep and emotional content on the production of false memories,”, J. D. Payne, D. L. Schacter, R. E. Propper et al., “The role of sleep in false memory formation,”, H. Lau, S. E. Alger, and W. Fishbein, “Relational memory: a daytime nap facilitates the abstraction of general concepts,”, J. M. Ellenbogen, P. T. Hu, J. D. Payne, D. Titone, and M. P. Walker, “Human relational memory requires time and sleep,”, S. J. Durrant, C. Taylor, S. Cairney, and P. A. Lewis, “Sleep-dependent consolidation of statistical learning,”, D. M. Werchan and R. L. Gómez, “An interaction between reinforcement learning and sleep to facilitate transitive inference,”, R. L. Gómez, R. R. Bootzin, and L. Nadel, “Naps promote abstraction in language-learning infants,”, A. Hupbach, R. L. Gomez, R. R. Bootzin, and L. Nadel, “Nap-dependent learning in infants,”, E. F. Pace-Schott, P. W. Verga, T. S. Bennett, and R. M. Spencer, “Sleep promotes consolidation and generalization of extinction learning in simulated exposure therapy for spider fear,”, D. J. Presumably this SWS-REM cycle could continue throughout early sleep. While reverse replay alone may contribute to some generalization, a recent study by Gupta and colleagues [105] suggests an even more powerful role of replay in generalization. In sum, sleep-dependent generalization has gained wide support from the behavioral literature. Performance was impaired by the interference trial for those animals that stayed awake following learning. Thus, this study directly demonstrates sleep’s selective role in memory consolidation, acting only on those memories that have future relevance. Copyright © 2013 Rebecca M. C. Spencer. Late in the night, Aserinsky observed wake-like EEG and eye movements on the record. Likewise, differences in awareness in the visuomotor task, adopted by Doyon et al. At first light, this hypothesis seems completely counter to work reviewed so far, which supports the fact that we sleep to remember. In this task, participants are given a list of unrelated words (e.g., COOKIES, SIXTEEN, and HEART) and are required to find the word that underlies the association between them (e.g., SWEET). Neurophysiological Basis of Selective Memory and Forgetting over Sleep. Recently, we demonstrated how sleep-dependent generalization has a translational benefit, specifically in the treatment of anxiety disorders such as spider phobia [102]. 1996 May;77(1-2):45-52. doi: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00225-1. There is evidence that in this latter part of sleep, with declarative memories sufficiently consolidated, processing of motor memories begins to be predominant [139, 147]. A number of studies have demonstrated that participants are more accurate in recalling to-be-remembered words compared to to-be-forgotten words (for review see [125]). Born, “The contribution of sleep to hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation,”, M. Steriade, “Grouping of brain rhythms in corticothalamic systems,”, E. Aserinsky, “The discovery of REM sleep,”, C. Brown, “The stubborn scientist who unraveled a mystery of the night,”, P. Maquet, J. M. Peters, J. Aerts et al., “Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming,”, P. McNamara, D. McLaren, and K. Durso, “Representation of the Self in REM and NREM dreams,”, E. F. Pace-Schott and J. In its simplest form, sleep-dependent memory consolidation can be seen by studies examining the change in recall following an interval with sleep relative to an interval with wake. We examined sleep’s role in remembering and forgetting by having participants either sleep or stay awake following the encoding and retrieval practice phases of this task [124]. Other aspects of this model can be supported by correlations between sleep stages and behavior as well. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." In fact, without such downscaling of synaptic weights, the brain would literally run out of capacity. This was demonstrated by Ramadan and colleagues [75] who, using a similar spatial memory task as Girardeau and colleagues [73], found that animals with the greatest ripple density in sleep following learning made the fewest errors in subsequent recall of the spatial memory task. K-complexes can be induced by an auditory stimulus and thus are associated with sleep maintenance [24]. 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O'Keefe and J. Dostrovsky, “The hippocampus as a spatial map. We believe it is A number of studies have demonstrated that motor skill learning is benefited by sleep. For instance, one may learn a list of semantically unrelated word pairs in the morning and recall them 12 hrs later (e.g., 8 am to 8 pm) following a daytime interval spent awake, or one might learn the list in the evening and recall the word pairs 12 hrs later following an interval primarily spent in overnight sleep (e.g., 8 pm to 8 am). Words on each list are semantically related (e.g., BOWL, SPOON, and MILK) but lack a critical lure that reflects the gist of the word list (e.g., CEREAL). Of course, attention or other cognitive processes necessary to perform well on the task may be at their best in the morning and, as such, superior recall following sleep relative to wake may be a circadian, or time of day, effect. Generalization over sleep cannot be explained by simple neural replay or spindle induced cortical plasticity. Similarly, Rudoy and colleagues [50] had participants learning a visuospatial task in which each image was paired with a specific sound. The emotional tagging theory posits that by activating the amygdala when a memory is encoded, associated synapses are tagged (e.g., reduced threshold for activation) making them more susceptible to consolidation later [134]. This pattern of results was found both over an interval of overnight sleep compared to daytime wake and over a daytime nap compared to an equivalent interval of daytime wake, thus excluding a circadian explanation for the results. Intervals with sleep protect [4] and, in some cases, enhance [5] memory in healthy individuals. Emotion provides another source of future relevance. The role of sleep in selectively remembering items with future relevance has been directly examined. Counter to predictions, excitability increased over SWS. Participants practice recalling word pairs with cues directing them to recall half of the original pairs (e.g., EGG-B___, EGG-T___, and EGG-C___). This observation marked the discovery of REM sleep [31] and what is claimed to be the birth of modern sleep science [32]. K-complexes are composed of a brief negative sharp wave followed immediately by a positive inflection, taking place within  .5 secs [22]. Neurophysiological Basis of Sleep’s Function on Memory and Cognition, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 419 Tobin Hall, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, A. Rolls, “The men who didn't sleep: the story of Peter Tripp and Randy Gardner,” in, R. Gallassi, A. Morreale, P. Montagna et al., “Fatal familial insomnia: behavioral and cognitive features,”, T. T. Dang-Vu, M. Schabus, M. Desseilles et al., “Spontaneous neural activity during human slow wave sleep,”, K. Donohue and R. M. C. Spencer, “Continuous re-exposure to environmental sound cues during sleep does not improve memory for semantically unrelated word pairs,”, M. A. Tucker and W. Fishbein, “Enhancement of declarative memory performance following a daytime nap is contingent on strength of initial task acquisition,”, J. M. Ellenbogen, J. C. Hulbert, Y. Jiang, and R. Stickgold, “The sleeping brain's influence on verbal memory: boosting resistance to interference,”, J. K. Wilson et al., “Sleep modulates word-pair learning but not motor sequence learning in healthy older adults,”, S. Diekelmann and J. While the scope of this paper so far is sufficient to explain why declarative memories are more accurately recalled in their literal, veridical form after sleep than they are after wake, it is unaccounted for is how sleep benefits other cognitive processes such as decision making [11] and creativity [9]. For example, the frequency of ripples (150–250 Hz) is suitable to spawn long-term potentiation [72]. Abstraction is presumably the same function referred to here as generalization. Moreover, those that slept were even able to resolve pairs that required inference across great distances (e.g., A-D). Importantly, however, hippocampal activity precedes cortical activity, consistent with the theory that memories are transferred from hippocampus to neocortex [79, 86]. Neural replay is most often associated with hippocampal CA1 place cells that form the neural map of space. Rather than just triggering local long-term potentiation and replaying within the hippocampus, slow wave/ripple events are associated with transfer of memories from temporary storage in the hippocampus to more permanent storage in the cortex. While this section provides only a brief review of the neuroanatomical and neurochemical states (for more detail see [35, 39]), the physiological potential for one or more cognitive processing steps to take place during sleep is nonetheless evident. There was no difference in recall of to-be-forgotten words across groups. Neurophysiological recordings in behaving rodents demonstrate neuronal response properties that may code space and time for episodic memory and goal-directed behaviour. Recent physiological data reviewed suggests how these behavioral changes might be supported by sleep. Certainly, if memory must make sacrifices, the practiced pairs are stronger and will be remembered. SWS is unique because, as the name implies, background EEG slows to  .5–2 Hz [22], or delta waves. When treating such disorders, psychotherapists often present examples of the feared cue (e.g., spiders) to the patient with the assumption that exposure will diminish the fear response. Thus, in the retrieval induced forgetting paradigm, practiced and unpracticed pairs have future relevance and, as such, are consolidated over sleep while in the directed forgetting paradigm, sleep protects only items with instructed future relevance while sacrificing those without future relevance. Children with sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea [51], narcolepsy [52], and excessive daytime sleepiness [53], have impairments in memory and daytime function. Specifically, participants encode a list of word pairs. Specifically, flies who spent 12 hrs in a “fly mall,” allowed to freely move around and interact with up to 100 other flies in a chamber, had greater synaptic spine density than flies who spent the 12 hr interval housed individually, which is considered to be an unenriched environment. This view is supported by a recent corpus of literature that suggests that the hippocampus is engaged in many forms of motor learning, including many forms of motor sequence learning [152, 153]. Nonetheless, by drawing together what is known in such a way, testable hypotheses can be derived in order to educate these gaps. It is worth considering whether procedural memories may be consolidated via replay in the subcortical structures engaged in the learning task. Following training, the temperature-gated channels were activated through a temperature change, thereby inducing sleep [58]. A parsimonious alternative is that SWS and REM play a sequential role in memory consolidation and generalization. If synaptic weight is reduced over SWS, the cortex should be less excitable. These results suggest that exposure therapy may be most effective if timed such that sleep may occur afterwards thereby allowing the learned fear extinction to be generalized to novel stimuli. Following an intersession interval awake, performance did not improve significantly. 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In addition to a role in sleep maintenance [25, 26], sleep spindles are considered markers of brain plasticity [80, 81]. Simultaneously, we can generate creative ideas upon awakening as the result of combining memories over sleep. This result provides support for the simple predictions of the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis that synaptic potentiation increases over wake and decreases over sleep. We will return to the interaction between SWS and REM in Section 11. At this time, overlapping schema from the day can be integrated through simultaneous activation as proposed by the iOta model [108] resulting in local depotentiation as distinct episodes are bound (Figure 1(a)). At a physiological level, sleep supports memory in a number of ways including neural replay and enhanced plasticity in the context of reduced ongoing input. 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