Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Third Benefit of Sleep
Rem sleep a se comes on to stead of sleep and emotional processing. Sleep also seems to be far more intelligent than simply grabbing individual memories and saving them. It's as though you start to fuse things together that at first really shouldn't normally go together. But it turns out, when they do, they cause marked advances in evolution.
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