A new study reveals that sleep not only consolidates existing memories but also primes the brain for future learning.

Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and how we interact with the world.

it can periodically reactivate them to facilitate their retention, via a process known as memory consolidation. The reactivation of memories has been specifically studied in the context of sleep ...

This study explores how memory reactivation strengthens both the reactivated target memory and contextually bound peripheral memories. Across four experiments, it highlights the context-dependence ...

The memory reactivation theory proposes that one possible function ... For example, our recent work on a mouse model of tau-mediated neurodegeneration, a key pathology of Alzheimer’s disease, reveals ...