These distinct tests enabled the scientists to observe specific hippocampal activity during learning and then memory replay and consolidation in sleep. Because of the way our pupils change in response ...

Scientists now know that while we snooze, our brains help solidify the memories we made during the day. In this Special Feature, we investigate whether simple techniques might help improve memory ...

Sleep I slept for 8 hours a night and still felt exhausted — until an expert changed one simple thing about my sleep schedule Sleep For months I’ve been waking up at 3 a.m. with anxiety — a doctor ...

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A new study reported in the journal Science on June 6, 2014 is groundbreaking in filling in some missing information about how sleep affects learning, memory, and performance. Over the last few ...

Lack of sleep hinders the acquisition of new information and the retrieval of previously learned material. Moreover, sleep deprivation significantly disrupts memory consolidation - the process through ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds and supports the brain and ...

Sleep has long been understood as essential to human health, but for much of history, scientists treated it as a passive state — a period of downtime when the body simply recovered from the demands of ...

Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and how we interact with the world. At the cellular level, these processes rely on specialized neurons called ...

Why is sleep so important for learning and memory? Neuroscientists from the Csicsvari group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) provided new insight into this essential function ...

One of sleep’s key functions is to stabilize and integrate new memories into our brain’s long-term memory systems, a process known as "consolidation." This idea is now widely accepted, though it ...