Strengthening Individual Memories by Reactivating them During Sleep

By John D. Rudoy, Joel L. Voss, Carmen E. Westerberg, Ken A. Paller. 2009

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During sleep, memories can be influenced in a specific and systematic manner. While asleep, people heard sounds that had earlier been associated with objects at specific spatial locations. Upon waking, they recalled these locations more accurately than other locations for which no reminder cues were provided. Consolidation thus operates during sleep with high specificity and is subject to systematic influences through simple auditory stimulation.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Citations in the corpus

The restless engram: consolidations never end. (2012, background): “Rudoy et al. (2009) trained awake participants to associate object locations with sound and found that only those associations that were cued during sleep with their relevant sound were strengthened.”
Memory consolidation. (2015, background): “As discussed earlier, recent studies in humans have tried to increase the probability of replay during sleep by cueing recently learned memories via smell or sound associations (Rasch et al. 2007; Rudoy et al. 2009).”
The molecular and systems biology of memory. (2014, unknown): “…memoranda and of items that are expected to be subsequently retrieved (Sterpenich et al., 2009; Wilhelm et al., 2011; Rauchs et al., 2011); Rudoy et al. (2009) trained awake participants to associate object locations with sound and found that only Cell 157, March 27, 2014 ª2014 Elsevier…”
Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration (2014, result): “…of a particular memory in the down-selection phase results in a selective enhancement of that memory, in line with experimental results showing the benefits of cuing during sleep (Antony et al., 2012; Bendor and Wilson, 2012; Diekelmann et al., 2011; Rasch et al., 2007; Rudoy et al., 2009).”
Strengthening Procedural Memories by Reactivation in Sleep (2014, background): “Previous animal studies investigating reactivation in the hippocampus and neocortex , and human studies on memory reactivation suggest that reactivation occurs primarily in SWS (Antony et al., 2012; Rudoy et al., 2009; Ji & Wilson, 2007).”
Sleep for cognitive enhancement (2014, background): “Rudoy et al. presented pictures at specific locations that were paired with corresponding sounds (Rudoy et al., 2009).”