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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

A model of autonomous interactions between hippocampus and neocortex driving sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

Dhairyya Singh, Kenneth A Norman, Anna C Schapiro

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05910762 (Learning Novel Structure Across Time and Sleep), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05910762 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Learning Novel Structure Across Time and Sleep

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaRan2023 to 2026Enrolled119ConditionsLearning, Humans, Consolidation, SleepArmsAssociative inference, Category learning, Sleep
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Memory reactivation during sleep promotes structure abstraction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  12. REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
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  19. Memory's gatekeeper: The role of PFC in the encoding of congruent events.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dhairyya SinghDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0002-3567-3059
Kenneth A NormanDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.ORCID 0000-0002-5887-9682
Anna C SchapiroDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0001-8086-0331

Funding

Modeling the Neural Basis of Episodic MemoryR01MH069456 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI KENNETH A NORMAN, Nicholas Benjamin Turk-Browne · 2004 to 2026
$7.2M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH069456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How do we build up our knowledge of the world over time? Many theories of memory formation and consolidation have posited that the hippocampus stores new information, then "teaches" this information to the neocortex over time, especially during sleep. But it is unclear, mechanistically, how this actually works-How are these systems able to interact during periods with virtually no environmental input to accomplish useful learning and shifts in representation? We provide a framework for thinking about this question, with neural network model simulations serving as demonstrations. The model is composed of hippocampus and neocortical areas, which replay memories and interact with one another completely autonomously during simulated sleep. Oscillations are leveraged to support error-driven learning that leads to useful changes in memory representation and behavior. The model has a non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep stage, where dynamics between the hippocampus and neocortex are tightly coupled, with the hippocampus helping neocortex to reinstate high-fidelity versions of new attractors, and a REM sleep stage, where neocortex is able to more freely explore existing attractors. We find that alternating between NREM and REM sleep stages, which alternately focuses the model's replay on recent and remote information, facilitates graceful continual learning. We thus provide an account of how the hippocampus and neocortex can interact without any external input during sleep to drive useful new cortical learning and to protect old knowledge as new information is integrated.

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Memory ConsolidationNeocortexHippocampusMemorySleepcontinual learningneural network modeloscillationssleep stages

Identifiers

PMID36279437
PMCPMC9636926

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