Incorporation of fragmented visuo-olfactory episodic memory into dreams and its association with memory performance.
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The question of a possible link between dream content and memory consolidation remains open. After a comprehensive review of the literature, we present novel findings from an experiment testing whether the incorporation of recently learned stimuli into dream reports is associated with improved post-sleep memory performance. Thirty-two high dream recallers freely explored new visuo-olfactory episodes for 3 consecutive days. During the nights following each non-explicit encoding, participants wore a wrist actimeter, and woke up at 5am and their usual waking time to record their dreams (intensity of all oneiric sensory perception was assessed using scales). A total of 120 dreams were reported and elements related to the encoding phase were identified in 37 of them, either learning-related (mainly visual- and rarely olfactory-related elements), or experiment-related (lab- or experimenters-related elements). On the 4 th day, we found that participants with learning-related (n = 16) and participants with learning-related and/or experiment-related dreams (n = 21) had similar odor recognition and odor-evoked episodic memory with the other participants. However, they had significantly better visuo-spatial memory of the episodes in comparison to the other participants. Our results support the hypothesis that the learning phase is loosely incorporated into dreams and that this incorporation is associated with sleep related memory consolidation.
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When recent experiences appear in dreams, even in fragmentary form, subsequent memory for those experiences is improved.
“Importantly, when recent experiences appear in dreams, even in fragmentary form, subsequent memory for those experiences is improved.”
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The Results (Memory performance; page not available) report better post-sleep visuo-spatial memory among participants with learning-related dreams, but no significant improvement in odor recognition or odor-evoked episodic memory. The Discussion describes an association between dream content and memory performance, not evidence that the dreams caused the improvement; the claim is therefore broader than the finding. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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Fossali, P. B., & Verna, M. (2026) · Colloquium · doi:10.7359/2404-2026-intr
- Authors
- Plailly, J., Villalba, M., Vallat, R., Nicolas, A., & Ruby, P.
- Affiliations
- Lyon 1 Université (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Ruby, P.
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2019-10-30
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15687-15687
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6821835
- OpenAlex
- W2982372911
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 2.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-IDEX-0007, ANR-11-IDEX, ANR-11-LABX-0042, ANR-10, ANR-10-LABX, IDEX-0007, ANR-10-LABX-0060, 11 IDEX - 0007)
- Université de Lyon (ANR‐11‐LABX‐0042, ANR-11-IDEX-0 0 07, ANR-10-LABX-0060)
- Centre Lyonnais d'Acoustique, Université de Lyon (ANR10LABX0060, ANR-11-LABX-0042, ANR- 11-IDEX-0007)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- dream content, memory consolidation, episodic memory, odor recognition, visuospatial memory, dream recall, sleep
- MeSH terms
- Memory Consolidation, Adult, Cognition, Dreams, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Odorants, Sleep, Sleep Stages, Sleep, REM, Memory, Episodic
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