Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Travelling spindles create necessary conditions for spike-timing-dependent plasticity in humans

  • Charles W. Dickey,
  • Anna Sargsyan,
  • Joseph R. Madsen,
  • Emad N. Eskandar,
  • Sydney S. Cash,
  • Eric Halgren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21298-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Sleep spindles during non-rapid eye movement are important for memory consolidation and require specific neuronal firing conditions in non-human mammals. Here, the authors show these conditions are present in humans, potentially facilitating spike-timing-dependent plasticity.