Learning-Dependent Increases in Sleep Spindle Density

By Steffen Gais, Matthias Mölle, Kay Helms, Jan Born. Journal of Neuroscience, 2002

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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The contribution of sleep to hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation. (2007, background): “learning [40, 41 ]. Differential cortical distributions subsequent to learning a verbal versus visuospatial task have been reported”
About sleep's role in memory. (2013, background): “Intense learning of declarative memories (word pairs or virtual maze) increases the number of spindles (12–15 Hz) during subsequent sleep, particularly in the early part of the night (432, 812).”
Bursting of thalamic neurons and states of vigilance. (2006, methodology): “After training on a declarative learning task, the density of human sleep spindles is significantly higher compared with the nonlearning control task (Gais et al. 2002).”
Evening exposure to a light-emitting diodes (LED)-backlit computer screen affects circadian physiology and cognitive performance. (2011, methodology): “Each pair of words was displayed on the screen for 6 s, followed by a whitecentered fixation cross for 5 s, during which subjects were instructed to visually imagine a relationship between the two words of the pair in the aim to render mnemonic strategies more comparable across volunteers (11, 26).”
Learning‐dependent changes in sleep spindles and Stage 2 sleep (2006, background): “Sleep spindles have been proposed as a mechanism for synaptic plasticity (Steriade, 1999) and have been found to increase following new declarative learning (Gais et al., 2002) as well as being correlated with improved performance on a declarative memory task (Schabus et al., 2004).”
The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion (2009, background): “Moreover, the spindle density was associated with the proficiency of memory recalled the next day in the learning group (Gais et al. 2002).”
Rotating waves during human sleep spindles organize global patterns of activity that repeat precisely through the night (2016, methodology): “The number of spindles detected was in agreement with previous reports of spindle density (Gais et al., 2002; Warby et al., 2014).”
Grouping of brain rhythms in corticothalamic systems. (2006, methodology): “…activity during subsequent sleep (Tononi and Cirelli, 003), (ii) human data showing that learning activity inreases the density of sleep spindles (Gais et al., 2002), nd (iii) results indicating that simply sensory (auditory) stimlation during wakefulness produces increased power of leep…”
The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: Converging neuroimaging evidence (2007, background): “More specifically, the declarative memories benefit from stage two of NREM sleep, as well as from the sleep spindles in this stage and their grouping by slow cortical oscillations (Clemens et al. 2005; Gais et al. 2002; Marshall et al. 2006; Schabus et al. 2004).”
Sleep spindle activity is associated with the integration of new memories and existing knowledge (2010, background): “For example, word-pair learning before sleep induced higher sleep spindle activity than a nonlearning task, and spindle activity correlated positively with recall after sleep (Gais et al., 2002).”