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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Berry JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4671826 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berry Jacob A JA Cervantes-Sandoval Isaac I Chakraborty Molee M Davis Ronald L RL
Cell 20150611 7
Early studies from psychology suggest that sleep facilitates memory retention by stopping ongoing retroactive interference caused by mental activity or external sensory stimuli. Neuroscience research with animal models, on the other hand, suggests that sleep facilitates retention by enhancing memory consolidation. Recently, in Drosophila, the ongoing activity of specific dopamine neurons was shown to regulate the forgetting of olfactory memories. Here, we show this ongoing dopaminergic activity ...[more]