Sleep helps build long-term memories

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 11:07 in Psychology & Sociology

New work by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows how the sleeping brain replays experiences like video clips, thereby turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term ones.

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