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Sleep and Memory: The Ongoing Debate

2005; Oxford University Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/sleep/28.10.1225

1550-9109

Robert Stickgold, Matthew P. Walker,

Memory and Neural Mechanisms

The last 10 years have produced a wealth of scientific studies reporting a role for sleep in offline memory processing. Despite this evidence, debate continues to rage over the very existence of sleep-dependent learning and memory processing. We briefly review here the evidence in support of sleep's role in memory consolidation.