Post-Learning Sleep Transiently Boosts Context Specific Operant Extinction Memory

Operant extinction is learning to supress a previously rewarded behavior. It is known to be strongly associated with the specific context in which it was acquired, which limits the therapeutic use of operant extinction in behavioral treatments, e.g., of addiction. We examined whether sleep influence...

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Main Authors: Marion Inostroza, Margarita Borquez, María P. Contreras, Ennio Vivaldi, Jan Born
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00074/full