scholarly journals 0086 Targeted Memory Reactivation during Slow-Wave Sleep Modulates the Neural Correlates of Emotional Memory and Arousal Processing in Women

SLEEP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A35-A36
Author(s):  
Maria-Efstratia Tsimpanouli ◽  
Isabel C Hutchison ◽  
Martyn McFarquhar ◽  
Rebecca Elliott ◽  
Jules Schneider ◽  
...  
SLEEP ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Cairney ◽  
Simon J. Durrant ◽  
Johan Hulleman ◽  
Penelope A. Lewis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel C. Hutchison ◽  
Stefania Pezzoli ◽  
Maria-Efstratia Tsimpanouli ◽  
Mahmoud E. A. Abdellahi ◽  
Penelope A. Lewis

AbstractA growing body of evidence suggests that sleep can help to decouple the memory of emotional experiences from their associated affective charge. This process is thought to rely on the spontaneous reactivation of emotional memories during sleep, though it is still unclear which sleep stage is optimal for such reactivation. We examined this question by explicitly manipulating memory reactivation in both rapid-eye movement sleep (REM) and slow-wave sleep (SWS) using targeted memory reactivation (TMR) and testing the impact of this manipulation on habituation of subjective arousal responses across a night. Our results show that TMR during REM, but not SWS significantly decreased subjective arousal, and this effect is driven by the more negative stimuli. These results support one aspect of the sleep to forget, sleep to remember (SFSR) hypothesis which proposes that emotional memory reactivation during REM sleep underlies sleep-dependent habituation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Ashton ◽  
Scott A. Cairney ◽  
M. Gareth Gaskell

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan W. Whitmore ◽  
Adrianna M. Bassard ◽  
Ken A. Paller

AbstractFace memory, including the ability to recall a person’s name, is of major importance in social contexts. Like many other memory functions, it may rely on sleep. We investigated whether targeted memory reactivation during sleep could improve associative and perceptual aspects of face memory. Participants studied 80 face-name pairs, and then a subset of spoken names with associated background music was presented unobtrusively during a daytime nap. This manipulation preferentially improved name recall and face recognition for those reactivated face-name pairs, as modulated by two factors related to sleep quality; memory benefits were positively correlated with the duration of stage N3 sleep (slow-wave sleep) and negatively correlated with measures of sleep disruption. We conclude that (a) reactivation of specific face-name memories during sleep can strengthen these associations and the constituent memories, and that (b) the effectiveness of this reactivation depends on uninterrupted N3 sleep.


SLEEP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A39-A39
Author(s):  
Chenlu Gao ◽  
Nikita Chapagain ◽  
Taylor Terlizzese ◽  
Daniel Zeter ◽  
Paul Fillmore ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (48) ◽  
pp. 15870-15876 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. N. Cousins ◽  
W. El-Deredy ◽  
L. M. Parkes ◽  
N. Hennies ◽  
P. A. Lewis

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. e264
Author(s):  
O. Martynova ◽  
K.L. Sake ◽  
A. Polishchuk ◽  
K. Liaukovich ◽  
Y. Ukraintseva

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Whitmore ◽  
Adrianna M. Bassard ◽  
Ken A. Paller

AbstractFace memory, including the ability to recall the name of a familiar person, is often crucial in social interactions, and like many other memory functions, it may rely on sleep. We investigated whether targeted memory reactivation during sleep could improve associative and perceptual aspects of face memory. Participants studied 80 face-name pairs, and then a subset of spoken names was presented unobtrusively during a daytime nap. This reactivation preferentially improved recall for those face-name pairs, as modulated by two factors related to sleep quality. That is, the memory benefit was positively correlated with the duration of stage N3 sleep (slow-wave sleep) and with the extent to which cues presented during SWS did not produce a sleep disruption indexed by increased alpha-band electroencephalographic activity in the 5 seconds after a cue. Follow-up analyses showed that a memory benefit from presenting spoken names during sleep was evident in participants with high amounts of SWS or with low amounts of sleep disruption. We conclude that sleep reactivation can strengthen memory for specific face-name associations and that the effectiveness of reactivation depends on uninterrupted N3 sleep.


SLEEP ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A43-A43
Author(s):  
D Denis ◽  
S Y Kim ◽  
S M Kark ◽  
R T Daley ◽  
S E Alger ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction Sleep and stress can both enhance emotional memory consolidation. During slow wave sleep (SWS), oscillatory features such as slow oscillations (SO), sleep spindles (SS), and critically, their coupling, are believed to facilitate consolidation. How they relate to emotional memory consolidation is less clear, and how stress interacts with these oscillations is unknown. Methods In this study, participants either underwent a psychosocial stressor (the Trier Social Stress Task; n = 32) or a control task (n=32). Next, they encoded 150 neutral, negative, and positive images while undergoing fMRI. Participants then spent the night in the lab with polysomnographic recording. The next day they were given a surprise recognition test. Results There was better memory for emotional compared to neutral items in the stress group. Within this group, % of time spent in SWS positively correlated with emotional memory consolidation (r=.37, p=.039). However, SO-SS coupling during SWS was negatively correlated with emotional memory consolidation in the stress group (r=-.47, p=.007). This was driven by participants who showed a high cortisol response following the stressor (cortisol * coupling interaction p=.03) Results were similar when negative and positive items were analyzed separately. No correlations with neutral item memory were found. Conclusion Sleep stage time and sleep oscillatory activity exert different effects on emotional memory following stress, and that SO-SS coupling does not always promote episodic memory consolidation. SO-SS coupling can impair emotional memories when encoded during periods of elevated stress, and accompanying neuromodulators such as cortisol are high. Support National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: BXS-1539361


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