Promoting subjective preferences in simple economic choices during nap
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Abstract
Sleep is known to benefit consolidation of memories, especially those of motivational relevance. Yet it remains largely unknown the extent to which sleep influences reward-associated behavior, in particular, whether and how sleep modulates reward evaluation that critically underlies value-based decisions. Here, we show that neural processing during sleep can selectively bias preferences in simple economic choices when the sleeper is stimulated by covert, reward-associated cues. Specifically, presenting the spoken name of a familiar, valued snack item during midday nap significantly improves the preference for that item relative to items not externally cued. The cueing-specific preference enhancement is sleep-dependent and can be predicted by cue-induced neurophysiological signals at the subject and item level. Computational modeling further suggests that sleep cueing accelerates evidence accumulation for cued options during the post-sleep choice process in a manner consistent with the preference shift. These findings suggest that neurocognitive processing during sleep contributes to the fine-tuning of subjective preferences in a flexible, selective manner.
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (31671171)
- Lusha Zhu
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31630034)
- Lusha Zhu
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571099)
- Jie Shi
National Basic Research Program of China (2015CB856404)
- Jie Shi
National Basic Research Program of China (2015CB553503)
- Jie Shi
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81801315)
- Sizhi Ai
The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Human subjects: All participants provided written informed consent. Study procedures were reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee at Peking University.
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- Michael Breakspear, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia
Publication history
- Received: July 30, 2018
- Accepted: December 6, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: December 6, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: December 14, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Ai et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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