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The Role of Sleep in Declarative Memory ConsolidationDirect Evidence by Intracranial EEG

Nikolai Axmacher1 , 2, Sven Haupt1 , Guilln Fernndez3 , Christian E. Elger1 , 2 and Juergen Fell1
1 Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn,

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Germany, 2 Life and Brain GmbH, 53127 Bonn, Germany, 3 F.C. Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging and Department of Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Address correspondence to Dr Nikolai Axmacher, Departmet of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strae 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany, Email: nikolai.axmacher@ukb.uni-bonn.de.

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Articles by Axmacher, N. Two step theories of memory formation assume that an initial Articles by Fell, J. learning phase is followed by a consolidation stage. Memory consolidation has been suggested to occur predominantly during sleep. Very recent findings, however, suggest that important steps in memory consolidation occur also during waking state but may become saturated after some time awake. Sleep, in this model, specifically favors restoration of synaptic plasticity and accelerated memory consolidation while asleep and briefly afterwards. To distinguish between these different views, we recorded intracranial electroencephalograms from the hippocampus and rhinal cortex of human subjects while they retrieved information acquired either before or after a "nap" in the afternoon or on a control day without nap.

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Reaction times, hippocampal event-related potentials, and oscillatory gamma activity indicated a temporal gradient of hippocampal involvement in information retrieval on the control day, suggesting hippocampalneocortical information transfer during waking state. On the day with nap, retrieval of recent items that were encoded briefly after the nap did not involve the hippocampus to a higher degree than retrieval of items encoded before the nap. These results suggest that sleep facilitates rapid processing through the hippocampus but is not necessary for information transfer into the neocortex per se. Key Words: hippocampus intracranial EEG memory consolidation plasticity sleep

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