Tsukuba, Japan—Researchers at the Tsukuba University in Japan report that memories acquired while awake are stored in a more permanent form (called memory consolidation) during the REM stage of sleep, ...

A gene that plays a key role in regulating how bodies change across the 24-hour day also influences memory formation, allowing mice to consolidate memories better during the day than at night.

These distinct tests enabled the scientists to observe specific hippocampal activity during learning and then memory replay and consolidation in sleep. Because of the way our pupils change in response ...

Sleep plays a crucial role in memory consolidation. It is during deep sleep that the brain organises and stores information ...

A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.

A new study reveals that while we sleep, our brains quietly sort through the day’s experiences, keeping what we intend to remember and letting emotion-driven moments drift away. Study: Top-down ...

It is really, really difficult not to complain these days. There is a lot to complain about, no matter where one looks. But this makes it all the more important to be clear about the psychological ...