Improving offline consolidation by odor cuing memory reactivations in a school setting: Preliminary results

VIDAL, VANESSA; BARBUZZA, ALEJO R.; BRUSCO, LUIS I.; BALLARINI, FABRICIO M.; FORCATO, CECILIA

Congreso; XXXVI Annual Meeting of the Argentinean Society of Neuroscience; 2021

During sleep, recently acquired memories are spontaneously reactivated in the hippocampus, transferred andredistributed to neocortical networks favoring memory consolidation and persistence. Furthermore, thesereactivations can be induced by presenting a cue during sleep, previously associated to the learned material. Upto now, these reactivations have been induced in the Lab under controlled environments showing memoryimprovement after reactivation. However, it has been recently shown that the same effects could be obtainedat home with the experimental subjects auto-administering the cues during sleep. Thus, this approach resultsparticularly interesting for improving consolidation in a school setting. Here, we will discuss preliminary data ofodor reactivation during sleep previously linked to a history lecture in the classroom and its impact on memorypersistence.