Identical brain mechanisms are responsible for triggering a memory in both sleep and wakefulness, new research at the University of Birmingham has shown. Credit: CC0 Public Domain The study sheds new light on the processes used by the brain to ‘reactivate’ memories during sleep, consolidating them so they can be retrieved later. Although the importance...
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Deciphering how memory works in the brain – at the level of individual cells
Say you meet an old friend at the train station. She is standing about a meter ahead of you, and on the tracks to your right a train has just pulled into the station. Behind your friend, you see a bakery. We often remember such scenes in vivid detail. But exactly how we do that...
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