Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Reward biases spontaneous neural reactivation during sleep

  • Virginie Sterpenich,
  • Mojca K. M. van Schie,
  • Maximilien Catsiyannis,
  • Avinash Ramyead,
  • Stephen Perrig,
  • Hee-Deok Yang,
  • Dimitri Van De Ville,
  • Sophie Schwartz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24357-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Sleep is known to promote memory consolidation, but the extent to which this is dependent on the memory’s relevance remains unclear. Here, the authors use a brain decoding approach to show that neural representations of rewarded experiences undergo a privileged reactivation during sleep, favouring their consolidation.