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Matthew Walker, “Sleep Insights” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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How to Refresh Your Hippocampus Usb Stick

The hippocampus is like a us be stick, it's very good at grabbing information on the fly from different sources. It has a limited storage capacity, whereas your cortex,. this mass of tissue on top that's essentially like the hard drive. And what we think happens is that during sleep, after you've acquired lots of information during the day and are going to bed, the hippocampus will then essentially have a therapy session with the cortex. So now what you learned yesterday is safely he hard drive. Your hippocampus, your us bstick, is now ready for new learning the next day. How is that happening? What we know from animal studies, and now from some evidence in humans, is that

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