In humans, memory consolidation can be aided by the representation of an odor previously associated with target information during sleep. In an elegant study, Zwaka et al. (Curr Biol 25: 2869-2874, 2015) have demonstrated that the same process occurs in honeybees, suggesting that the relationship between sleep and memory may be similar across different animal species.
Keywords: active system consolidation; conditioning; honeybees; memory consolidation; model organism; sleep.
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