Abstract
Commentary: Olfactory aversive conditioning during sleep reduces cigarette-smoking behavior.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Emotion Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
For more than half of a century, we have known that the sleeping brain is able to perceive sensory information; learning new associations during sleep was deemed mythical
Capitalizing again on the valence-dependence of the sniff response, they paired cigarette odor with aversive smells during sleep in a group of nicotine-addicts who subsequently significantly reduced the number of cigarettes smoked in the week following exposure (Arzi et al, 2014)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Emotion Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Olfactory aversive conditioning during sleep reduces cigarette-smoking behavior by Arzi, A., Holtzman, Y., Samnon, P., Eshel, N., Harel, E., and Sobel, N. They demonstrated that humans can learn new associations while they are asleep and act on this knowledge both during sleep and the ensuing wake period.
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