Nature Communications (May 2021)

Endogenous memory reactivation during sleep in humans is clocked by slow oscillation-spindle complexes

  • Thomas Schreiner,
  • Marit Petzka,
  • Tobias Staudigl,
  • Bernhard P. Staresina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23520-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sleep after learning helps to strengthen new memories. Here, the authors link this memory benefit to the reactivation of learning experiences when two endogenous sleep rhythms—slow oscillations and sleep spindles—coincide.