Open AccessSleep and the Balance between Memory and Forgetting
Author(s) -
HongViet V. Ngo,
Jan Born
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2019.09.007
Subject(s) - biology , forgetting , sleep (system call) , balance (ability) , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , psychology , computer science , operating system
Slow oscillations and delta waves are neuronal activity rhythms that hallmark sleep, but until now their respective functional roles have been impossible to tease apart. Utilizing a closed-loop optogenetic approach in rats, Kim et al. (2019) dissociated the functions of these two canonical rhythms, showing they support the consolidation and forgetting of memories, respectively.
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