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Wakeful rest promotes the integration of spatial memories into accurate cognitive maps

Overview of attention for article published in Hippocampus, October 2015
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Title
Wakeful rest promotes the integration of spatial memories into accurate cognitive maps
Published in
Hippocampus, October 2015
DOI 10.1002/hipo.22502
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Authors

Michael Craig, Michaela Dewar, Mathew A Harris, Sergio Della Sala, Thomas Wolbers

Abstract

Flexible spatial navigation, e.g. the ability to take novel shortcuts, is contingent upon accurate mental representations of environments - cognitive maps. These cognitive maps critically depend on hippocampal place cells. In rodents, place cells replay recently travelled routes, especially during periods of behavioural inactivity (sleep/wakeful rest). This neural replay is hypothesised to promote not only the consolidation of specific experiences, but also their wider integration, e.g. into accurate cognitive maps. In humans, rest promotes the consolidation of specific experiences, but the effect of rest on the wider integration of memories remained unknown. In the present study, we examined the hypothesis that cognitive map formation is supported by rest-related integration of new spatial memories. We predicted that if wakeful rest supports cognitive map formation, then rest should boost knowledge of overarching spatial relations that were never experienced directly during recent navigation. Forty young participants learned a route through a virtual environment before either resting wakefully or engaging in an unrelated perceptual task for 10 minutes. Participants in the wakeful rest condition performed more accurately in a delayed cognitive map test, requiring the pointing to landmarks from a range of locations. Importantly, the benefit of rest could not be explained by active rehearsal, but can be attributed to the promotion of consolidation-related activity. These findings (i) resonate with the demonstration of hippocampal replay in rodents, and (ii) provide the first evidence that wakeful rest can improve the integration of new spatial memories in humans, a function that has, hitherto, been associated with sleep. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
United States 2 1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Unknown 137 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 23%
Researcher 20 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 11%
Student > Master 15 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 26 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 50 34%
Neuroscience 34 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 3%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 31 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 55. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2020.
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