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- Title
Memory consolidation during sleep: A form of brain restitution.
- Authors
Sheth, Bhavin R
- Abstract
Does sleep restore brain function or does it consolidate memory? I argue that memory consolidation during sleep is an offshoot of restitution. Continual learning causes local synapse-specific neural fatigue, which then masks expression of that learning, especially on lime-limited tests of procedural skills. Sleep serves to restore the fatigued synapses, revealing the consolidation-based enhancement observed as a "latent" overnight improvement in learning.
- Subjects
LEARNING; COMPREHENSION; NEURAL circuitry; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVOUS system; BIOLOGICAL neural networks
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X05390029