The role of REM sleep in neural differentiation of memories in the hippocampus.

The article discusses the role of REM sleep in the neural differentiation of memories in the hippocampus. Researchers found that violating a sequential association in a learning paradigm triggered differentiation of neural representations in the hippocampus, particularly in the right CA2/3/DG region. The study suggests that differentiation effects were greater in the presence of REM sleep, providing initial evidence linking REM sleep to changes in hippocampal memory representations in humans. [Extracted from the article]

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