News tagged with consolidation


Reactivating memories during sleep: Memory rehearsal during sleep can make a big difference in remembering later

Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered ...

Neuroscience created Apr 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sleep consolidates memories for competing tasks, researchers show

Sleep plays an important role in the brain's ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, research at the University of Chicago demonstrates.

Neuroscience created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel storage mechanism allows command, control of memory

(Medical Xpress)—Introductions at a party seemingly go in one ear and out the other. However, if you meet someone two or three times during the party, you are more likely to remember his or her name. Your ...

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sleep-deprived bees have difficulty relearning

Everyone feels refreshed after a good night's sleep, but sleep does more than just rejuvenate, it can also consolidate memories. 'The rapid eye movement form of sleep and slow wave sleep are involved in cognitive forms of ...

Sleep apnea created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Findings reveal brain mechanisms at work during sleep

New findings presented today report the important role sleep plays, and the brain mechanisms at work as sleep shapes memory, learning, and behavior. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of ...

Neuroscience created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sleeping brain behaves as if it's remembering something, study shows

UCLA researchers have for the first time measured the activity of a brain region known to be involved in learning, memory and Alzheimer's disease during sleep. They discovered that this part of the brain ...

Neuroscience created Oct 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Lesson in sleep learning: Associations formed in brains of sleeping volunteers remained intact when subjects were awake

Is sleep learning possible? A new Weizmann Institute study appearing today in Nature Neuroscience has found that if certain odors are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones ...

Neuroscience created Aug 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sleep disturbances hurt memory consolidation

Sleep disturbance negatively impacts the memory consolidation and enhancement that usually occurs with a good night's sleep, according to a study published Mar. 28 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Sleep apnea created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Interrupted sleep impairs memory in mice

With the novel use of a technique that uses light to control brain cells, Stanford University researchers have shown that fragmented sleep causes memory impairment in mice.

Sleep apnea created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A better way to remember

Scientists and educators alike have long known that cramming is not an effective way to remember things. With their latest findings, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, studying eye ...

Neuroscience created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1