Fast-Forward Playback of Recent Memory Sequences in Prefrontal Cortex During Sleep

@article{Euston2007FastForwardPO,
  title={Fast-Forward Playback of Recent Memory Sequences in Prefrontal Cortex During Sleep},
  author={D. R. Euston and Masami Tatsuno and Bruce L. McNaughton},
  journal={Science},
  year={2007},
  volume={318},
  pages={1147 - 1150}
}
As previously shown in the hippocampus and other brain areas, patterns of firing-rate correlations between neurons in the rat medial prefrontal cortex during a repetitive sequence task were preserved during subsequent sleep, suggesting that waking patterns are reactivated. We found that, during sleep, reactivation of spatiotemporal patterns was coherent across the network and compressed in time by a factor of 6 to 7. Thus, when behavioral constraints are removed, the brain's intrinsic… 
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