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Procedural replay: The anatomy and physics of the sleep spindle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Helene Sophrin Porte*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

Abstract

This commentary implicates the neostriatum in the production of the EEG sleep spindle and in the processing of motor procedural learning in sleep. Whether the sleep spindle may implement not only the consolidation-based enhancement of procedural learning, but also its initial consolidation, is considered; as is the fit between (1) corticostriatal anatomy and physiology, and (2) the physical properties of the sleep spindle.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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1. Intermittent synchronous activity in neostriatal networks, interrupting relatively long periods of silence, may go unread during neuroimaging studies of the sleeping brain.