How the brain learns during sleep

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Researchers from Ruhr-Universit ä t Bochum and the University of Bonn have investigated which activity patterns occur in the brain when people remember or forget things. They were interested in how the brain replays and stores during sleep what it had learned before. The team recorded the brain activity of epilepsy patients who had electrodes implanted into their brain for the purpose of surgical planning. One result: During sleep, the brain even reactivates memory traces that it can no longer remember later on.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news