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Sleep and the extraction of hidden regularities: A systematic review and the importance of temporal rules.
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- Slow-wave sleep as a key player in offline memory processing: insights from human EEG studies.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Memory reactivation in slow wave sleep enhances relational learning in humans.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Sleep-related benefits to transitive inference are modulated by encoding strength and joint rank.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Rule Abstraction Is Facilitated by Auditory Cuing in REM Sleep.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Overnight exposure to pink noise could jeopardize sleep-dependent insight and pattern detection.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Contributions of memory and brain development to the bioregulation of naps and nap transitions in early childhood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Effects of Sleep on Language and Motor Consolidation: Evidence of Domain General and Specific Mechanisms.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Sleep Facilitates Extraction of Temporal Regularities With Varying Timescales.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
As part of its role in memory consolidation, sleep has been repeatedly identified as critical for the extraction of regularities from wake experiences. However, many null results have been published as well, with no clear consensus emerging regarding the conditions that yield this sleep effect. Here, we systematically review the role of sleep in the extraction of hidden regularities, specifically those involving associative relations embedded in newly learned information. We found that the specific behavioral task used in a study had far more impact on whether a sleep effect was discovered than either the category of the cognitive processes targeted, or the particular experimental design employed. One emerging pattern, however, was that the explicit detection of hidden rules is more likely to happen when the rules are of a temporal nature (i.e., event A at time t predicts a later event B) than when they are non-temporal. We discuss this temporal rule sensitivity in reference to the compressed memory replay occurring in the hippocampus during slow-wave-sleep, and compare this effect to what happens when the extraction of regularities depends on prior knowledge and relies on structures other than the hippocampus.
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