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Sleep, the researchers conclude, plays an active role in consolidating memories.
An afternoon nap, Dr Walker has discovered, sets the brain up for learning.The role of sleep in consolidating memories that have already been created has been understood for some time.
A post-prandial snooze, Dr Walker has discovered, sets the brain up for learning.The role of sleep in consolidating memories that have already been created has been understood for some time.
The finding, described by a number of scientists at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans in early November, is part of continuing research on the role of sleep in consolidating memories.
In conceptual terms, the limbic system is regarded as an integral system for relating information to emotion, forming motivations of behavior, regulating autonomous and endocrine function, and consolidating memories.
Lots of studies have suggested that our brains are busy while we sleep, consolidating memories of the day's events and putting them in the context of things we already know.
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Experiments have shown that rats reactivate temporally sequenced events during sleep, suggesting they are consolidating memory.
But the Christmas lights of the young mice were still blinking away during sleep, a crucial time when the brain works on its database – consolidating memory, which is vital for cognition and behavioral response.
By introducing interference after sleep, this study confirms an experimental paradigm that demonstrates the active role of sleep in consolidating memory, and unmasks the large magnitude of that benefit.
While some researchers felt that spontaneous activity was an obstacle to be overcome for brain function (e.g. Triesman, Hebb), others considered that the internal dynamics of the brain serve an important role for consolidating memory traces and maintaining functional networks (e.g. Lashley).
It strengthens and consolidates memories of things it encounters regularly and frequently.
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