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The sex-specific memory consolidation of social stimuli during sleep

01/12/2025 to 30/11/2028

Appropriate behavioral responses in complex environments require knowledge from widely different stimulus domains. Despite their distinct underlying neuronal networks, social and non-social memories form part of the episodic memory system integrating both types of stimuli as specific events. Sleep supports memory consolidation, a process in which newly acquired information is stabilized, particularly in the hippocampus-dependent episodic memory system. However, how the brain simultaneously processes social and non-social information during sleep is currently not well understood.