Sharp wave ripples (SPW‐Rs) represent the most synchronous population pattern in the
mammalian brain. Their excitatory output affects a wide area of the cortex and several …

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a peculiar neural state that occupies 20–25% of
nighttime sleep in healthy human adults and seems to play critical roles in a variety of …

Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

We used crowdsourcing (CS) to examine how COVID-19 lockdown affects the content of
dreams and nightmares. The CS took place on the sixth week of the lockdown. Over the …

Sleep enhances integration across multiple stimuli, abstraction of general rules, insight into
hidden solutions and false memory formation. Newly learned information is better …

This paper reviews a novel hypothesis about the functions of slow wave sleep—the synaptic
homeostasis hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, plastic processes occurring during …

Sleep facilitates memory consolidation. A widely held model assumes that this is because
newly encoded memories undergo covert reactivation during sleep. We cued new memories …

While the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting and
contentious hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to memory. A large number of …

On the basis of brain imaging studies, Doyon and Ungerleider recently proposed a model
describing the cerebral plasticity that occurs in both cortico–striatal and cortico–cerebellar …

This review discusses the cerebral plasticity, and the role of the cortico-striatal system in
particular, observed as one is learning or planning to execute a newly learned motor …