Science of Dreaming
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Sleep Spindles Are Important for Memory Consolidation
The sleep spindles are important for consolidation and processing. They occur in areas of the cortex which have been involved in learning during the day. We can monitor stage of sleep they're in, and then we can cruelly wake them up whenever we feel like it to ask them if they were dreaming.
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