Prefrontal coding of learned and inferred knowledge during REM and NREM sleep

Mahmoud Ibrahim Abdou Kareem, Masanori Nomoto, Mohamed H. Aly, Ahmed Z. Ibrahim, Kiriko Choko, Reiko Suzuki, Shin Ichi Muramatsu, Kaoru Inokuchi*

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研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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Idling brain activity has been proposed to facilitate inference, insight, and innovative problem-solving. However, it remains unclear how and when the idling brain can create novel ideas. Here, we show that cortical offline activity is both necessary and sufficient for building unlearned inferential knowledge from previously acquired information. In a transitive inference paradigm, male C57BL/6J mice gained the inference 1 day after, but not shortly after, complete training. Inhibiting the neuronal computations in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during post-learning either non-rapid eye movement (NREM) or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, but not wakefulness, disrupted the inference without affecting the learned knowledge. In vivo Ca2+ imaging suggests that NREM sleep organizes the scattered learned knowledge in a complete hierarchy, while REM sleep computes the inferential information from the organized hierarchy. Furthermore, after insufficient learning, artificial activation of medial entorhinal cortex-ACC dialog during only REM sleep created inferential knowledge. Collectively, our study provides a mechanistic insight on NREM and REM coordination in weaving inferential knowledge, thus highlighting the power of idling brain in cognitive flexibility.

本文言語英語
論文番号4566
ジャーナルNature Communications
15
1
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 2024/12

ASJC Scopus 主題領域

  • 化学一般
  • 生化学、遺伝学、分子生物学一般
  • 物理学および天文学一般

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