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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024

Novel Electrophysiological Signatures of Learning and Forgetting in Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep.

Alessandra E Shuster, Pin-Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, Elizabeth A McDevitt, Beth Lopour, Sara C Mednick

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Sleep Across the Lifespan: A Neurobehavioral Perspective.Current sleep medicine reports · 2025
    Review
  4. REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alessandra E ShusterSleep and Cognition Lab, University of California, Irvine, California 92697.ORCID 0009-0000-7008-1692
Pin-Chun ChenUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.ORCID 0000-0002-4221-4918
Hamid NiknazarSleep and Cognition Lab, University of California, Irvine, California 92697.
Elizabeth A McDevittPrinceton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544.
Beth LopourSleep and Cognition Lab, University of California, Irvine, California 92697.
Sara C MednickSleep and Cognition Lab, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 mednicks@uci.edu.
University of California, Irvine · USCalifornia University of Pennsylvania · USPrinceton University · US

Funding

The Impact of Sex Hormones on Sleep-Dependent Memory in Young and Midlife Men and WomenRF1AG061355 · NIA · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI BAKER, FIONA C, MEDNICK, SARA CAROLE · 2019 to 2019
$4.8M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG061355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the known behavioral benefits of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, discrete neural oscillatory events in human scalp electroencephalography (EEG) linked with behavior have not been discovered. This knowledge gap hinders mechanistic understanding of the function of sleep, as well as the development of biophysical models and REM-based causal interventions. We designed a detection algorithm to identify bursts of activity in high-density, scalp EEG within theta (4-8 Hz) and alpha (8-13 Hz) bands during REM sleep. Across 38 nights of sleep, we characterized the burst events (i.e., count, duration, density, peak frequency, amplitude) in healthy, young male and female human participants (38; 21F) and investigated burst activity in relation to sleep-dependent memory tasks: hippocampal-dependent episodic verbal memory and nonhippocampal visual perceptual learning. We found greater burst count during the more REM-intensive second half of the night (

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ElectroencephalographySleep, REMAdultFemaleHumansLearningMaleMemory, EpisodicTheta RhythmYoung AdultelectrophysiologyforgettinglearningmemoryREM sleepsleep

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PMID38670803
PMCPMC11170679
OpenAlexW4395661261

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