Sleep inspires insight

By Ullrich Wagner, Steffen Gais, H. Haider, R. Verleger, Jan Born. 2004

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Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “…Bader, Mecklinger, Hoppstädter, & Meyer, 2010; Tibon, Gronau, Scheuplein, Mecklinger, & Levy, 2014) and abstraction (Gómez, Bootzin, & Nadel, 2006; Wagner, Gais, Haider, Verleger, & Born, 2004; Smith & Smith, 2003; Djonlagic et al., 2009; Cai, Mednick, Harrison, Kanady, & Mednick, 2009; Lewis,…”
Robots that can adapt like animals (2014, background): “This process is reminiscent of the ﬁnding that some animals start the day with new ideas that they may quickly disregard after experimenting with them 27 , and more generally, that sleep improves creativity on cognitive tasks 28 .”
How Memory Replay in Sleep Boosts Creative Problem-Solving (2018, background): “The link between this type of abstraction and creativity or problem solving is illustrated by the number reduction task, in which non-REM-related abstraction of a hidden rule that was common to many separate experimental trials allowed participants to have a creative insight and skip irrelevant step”
Affect and Creativity at Work (2005, background): “Atienza, M., J. L. Cantero, and R. Stickgold 2004 “Posttraining sleep enhances automaticity in perceptual discrimination.””
Overnight Alchemy: Sleep-dependent Memory Evolution (2010, background): “Similarly, a night of sleep more than doubles the likelihood that subjects will discover a hidden rule for solving a class of mathematical problem”
Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight (2017, background): “The authors concluded ”that sleep, by restructuring new memory representations, facilitates extraction of explicit knowledge and insightful behavior” (Wagner et al., 2004).”
The memory function of sleep (2010, background): “There is strong evidence for an active consolidating influence of sleep from behavioural studies, which indicate that sleep can lead to qualitative changes in memor”
Towards Deep Developmental Learning (2016, background): “In humans and animals, some learning takes place during sleep [160] based on some experience replaymechanism [161], [162] and may involve some internal reorganization of the input flow.”