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Crossing borders: sleep reactivation as a window on cell assembly formation

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Learning is believed to be a result of plasticity in synaptic architecture, but few studies have shown this directly. A new paper explores a mechanism that shapes the formation of associative connections between neurons in behaving animals.

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Figure 1: Memory trace reactivation and its dependence on cofiring during waking.

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