title: Sleep and memory consolidation: a common mechanism across species?
abstract: In humans, memory consolidation can be aided by the representation of an odor previously associated with target information during sleep. In an elegant study, Zwaka et al. (Curr Biol 25: 2869-2874, 2015) have demonstrated that the same process occurs in honeybees, suggesting that the relationship between sleep and memory may be similar across different animal species.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Frighetto
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy cellini.nicola@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0306-4408
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cellini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D000069077:Memory Consolidation / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: active system consolidation; conditioning; honeybees; memory consolidation; model organism; sleep