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Coordinated Emergence of Hippocampal Replay and Theta Sequences during Post-natal Development

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 29; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.005

1879-0445

Laurenz Muessig, Michal Lasek, Isabella Varsavsky, Francesca Cacucci, Thomas J. Wills,

Sleep and Wakefulness Research

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By examining the development of hippocampal reactivation, replay, and theta sequences, we show that the coordinated maturation of offline consolidation and online sequence generation parallels the late emergence of hippocampal memory in the rat.