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Nature Neuroscience 11, 126 - 128 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0208-126

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

Douglas Nitz1 & Stephen Cowen1

  1. The authors are at The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA. e-mail: nitz@nsi.edu


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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