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HTTP:: Sleep Tied Directly to Memory Formation
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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof comes after almost a century of studies, in which researchers have hypothesized that sleep plays an important role in memory and learning, but have never been able to prove this conclusively. The father of psychoanalysis himself, Sigmund Freud, believed that, whatever information and experiences the mind encountered during the day, the brain rehearsed during the night. In previous researches on the theme, it was proposed that a link had to exist between the brain region known as the hippocampus and the process of memory consolidation, but the exact mechanism through which this link became important was not understood. Experts from the team were finally able to de!
termine that in charge of converting short-term memories to long-term ones were transient brain events known as “sharp wave ripples.” These ripples essentially consolidate memory, and help transfer memory from the hippocampus, where it is temporarily stored, to a permanent location, inside the neocort...
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