Sleep-deprived bees have difficulty relearning
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 18:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Everyone needs sleep and sleep is key to memory formation, so how does sleep help us to alter preformed memories? Answering this question is impossible in humans, but when researchers in Germany tested the effect of sleep deprivation on bee brains, they discovered that the insects could not modify their memories. So bee brains could teach us how we modify well-established memories.