When faced with difficult tasks, sometimes people hit a mental wall and make the decision to "sleep on it." Returning to the task after sleeping, they often perform better. Why? Rhythmic brain ...

Essentially, the two channels of activity prevented the brain from saving new 'files' over old ones – also known as "catastrophic interference" – while maintaining the long-term memories. “It’s like ...

Two distinct sleep stages appear to play vital, complementary roles in learning: one stage enhances overall performance, while the other stabilizes what we learned the previous day. Share on Pinterest ...

Firing patterns that represent synchronous activity during sleep and desynchronous activity during wakefulness were generated by simulation in a neural network where 10 presynaptic neurons are ...

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 ...

My mother likes to bring up that I used to be a heavy sleeper—a good sleeper—when I was young. “All of your bad habits started forming during middle school,” she scolds me. While I don’t reply, ...