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Sleep strengthens the memories we choose to keep

Sleep strengthens the memories we choose to keep

New research shows that while we sleep, our brain silently organizes the day’s experiences, retaining what we intend to remember and letting emotional moments fade away. Test: Top-down instructions outweigh emotional meaning: nocturnal sleep physiology indicates selective memory consolidation. Photo credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com A recent study published in Frontiers of behavioral neuroscience examined the interaction of […]