Incorporation of fragmented visuo-olfactory episodic memory into dreams and its association with memory performance.

ABSTRACT: The question of a possible link between dream content and memory consolidation remains open. After a comprehensive review of the literature, we present novel findings from an experiment testing whether the incorporation of recently learned stimuli into dream reports is associated with improved post-sleep memory performance. Thirty-two high dream recallers freely explored new visuo-olfactory episodes for 3 consecutive days. During the nights following each non-explicit encoding, participants wore a wrist actimeter, and woke up at 5am and their usual waking time to record their dreams (intensity of all oneiric sensory perception was assessed using scales). A total of 120 dreams were reported and elements related to the encoding phase were identified in 37 of them, either learning-related (ma

SUBMITTER: Plailly J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821835 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature