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SUBMITTER: Prabhakar J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6016818 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Prabhakar Janani J Johnson Elliott G EG Nordahl Christine Wu CW Ghetti Simona S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180604 25
Nonhuman research has implicated developmental processes within the hippocampus in the emergence and early development of episodic memory, but methodological challenges have hindered assessments of this possibility in humans. Here, we delivered a previously learned song and a novel song to 2-year-old toddlers during natural nocturnal sleep and, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, found that hippocampal activation was stronger for the learned song compared with the novel song. This was t ...[more]