Sleeping on the rubber-hand illusion: Memory reactivation during sleep facilitates multisensory recalibration.

ABSTRACT: Plasticity is essential in body perception so that physical changes in the body can be accommodated and assimilated. Multisensory integration of visual, auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive signals contributes both to conscious perception of the body's current state and to associated learning. However, much is unknown about how novel information is assimilated into body perception networks in the brain. Sleep-based consolidation can facilitate various types of learning via the reactivation of networks involved in prior encoding or through synaptic down-scaling. Sleep may likewise contribute to perceptual learning of bodily information by providing an optimal time for multisensory recalibration. Here we used methods for targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during slow-wave sleep to examine t

SUBMITTER: Honma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5294922 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature