Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Brain consolidates memory with three-step brainwave

Our long-term memory is consolidated when we sleep. Short-term memory traces in the hippocampus, an area deep in the brain, are then relocated to more outer parts of the brain. An international team of neuroscientists now shows how a three-step brain oscillation plays an important part in that process.


Originally published at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150921133948.htm

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