Physical Exercise Improves Working Memory through Ripple-Spindle Coupling
Che, X.; Auer, B.; Schmid, P.; Reichert, C.; Scholz, A.; Weischner, T.; Knight, R. T.; Duerschmid, S.
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Spindle-ripple coupling enhances memory consolidation during sleep. Ripples, representing the compressed reactivation of environmental information, provide a mechanism for retaining memory information in chronological order and are also crucial for working memory (WM) during wakefulness. Brief sessions of physical exercise (PE) are proposed to boost WM. In concurrent EEG/MEG sessions, we investigated the role of PE in WM performance and high-frequency-ripple to spindle coupling. Ripples, identified in MEG sensors covering the medial temporal lobe (MTL) region, predicted individual WM performance. Ripples were locked to robust oscillatory patterns in the EEG defined spindle band. Spindle activity and ripples decrease during initial stimulus presentation and rebound after 1 sec. Behaviorally, PE enhanced WM performance. Neurophysiologically, PE scaled the ripple rate with the number of items to be kept in WM and strengthened the coupling between ripple events and spindle oscillations. These findings reveal that PE enhances WM by coordinating ripple-spindle interaction.
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