ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
A sleep spindle framework for motor memory consolidation.
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- Visual Training Induced Temporo-Occipital Fast Sleep Spindle Clustering in Humans Revealed by Full-Night HD-EEG Recordings.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Modulating sleep: slow oscillation and spindle stimulation effects on physiology and memory.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- Temporal sleep spindle clustering and slow-oscillation coupling in motor memory consolidation and generalization.Communications biology · 2026Article
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- VTA dopaminergic neuronal activity during NREM sleep is modulated by learning and facilitates motor memory consolidation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo-Cortical Sleep Spindles.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Interictal network dysfunction and cognitive impairment in epilepsy.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Impact of spindle-inspired transcranial alternating current stimulation during a nap on sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation in healthy older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Individualized temporal patterns drive human sleep spindle timing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Distributed and gradual microstructure changes are associated with the emergence of behavioural benefit from memory reactivation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Differential expression of spatiotemporal sleep spindle clusters in aging.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Spike-spindle coupling during sleep and its mechanism explanation in childhood focal epilepsy.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Oscillatory-Quality of sleep spindles links brain state with sleep regulation and function.Science advances · 2024Article
- Identification of a Hippocampus-to-Zona Incerta Projection involved in Motor Learning.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Sleep spindle density and temporal clustering are associated with sleep-dependent memory consolidation in Parkinson's disease.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sleep spindle activity has repeatedly been found to contribute to brain plasticity and consolidation of both declarative and procedural memories. Here we propose a framework for motor memory consolidation that outlines the essential contribution of the hierarchical and multi-scale periodicity of spindle activity, as well as of the synchronization and interaction of brain oscillations during this sleep-dependent process. We posit that the clustering of sleep spindles in 'trains', together with the temporally organized alternation between spindles and associated refractory periods, is critical for efficient reprocessing and consolidation of motor memories. We further argue that the long-term retention of procedural memories relies on the synchronized (functional connectivity) local reprocessing of new information across segregated, but inter-connected brain regions that are involved in the initial learning process. Finally, we propose that oscillatory synchrony in the spindle frequency band may reflect the cross-structural reactivation, reorganization and consolidation of motor, and potentially declarative, memory traces within broader subcortical-cortical networks during sleep. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future'.
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