Awake ripples enhance emotional memory encoding in the human brain
Haoxin Zhang, Ivan Skelin, Shiting Ma, Michelle R. Paff, Lilit Mnatsakanyan, Michael A. Yassa, Robert Thomas Knight, Jack J. Lin
The paper shows that post-encoding awake sharp-wave/ripples (aSWRs) in the human amygdala and hippocampus predict better memory discrimination of emotional stimuli.
Nature Communications · Jan 3, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience