Stimulation out of phase with the brain's
slow oscillation rhythm was ineffective.
«Importantly, the sound stimulation is effective only when the sounds occur in synchrony with the ongoing
slow oscillation rhythm during deep sleep.
When the volunteers were exposed to stimulating sounds that were in sync with the brain's
slow oscillation rhythm, they were better able to remember word associations they had learned the evening before.
Not exact matches
The first group received the light input just after the
slow oscillations, so their spindle could form a triple
rhythm (in phase):
slow oscillation - spindle - ripples.
During
slow - wave sleep, groups of neurons firing at the same time generate brain waves with triple
rhythms:
slow oscillations, spindles, and ripples.