Sleep: the ebb and flow of memory consolidation.
A new study has shown that successful imprinting in domestic chicks depends on post-training sleep; individual neurons were found to enter, leave and then rejoin neural networks, and may constitute the memory trace of the imprinted stimulus.
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Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Center for Sleep and Cognition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: rstickgold@hms.harvard.edu.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D007173:Imprinting, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*