#82: Sleep & Dreams - Sidarta Ribeiro, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
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The Connection Between Sleep and Memory
Sleep is essential for memory consolidation. During slowy sleep, memories are replayed and reactivated. This helps the learning of declarative contents such as names or places. The second half of the night is dominated by ramsleep - this is very important for procedure memories. People who don't have a good first half will not be able to process negative events properly out of ramsleep.
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