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Theorizing About Memory and Sleep
The idea was that the rose odor reminds you of your learning, and then you start thinking about those objects and their special locations. The odor made you reactivate those memories. We used sounds, but presented them very softly, just in whispers. And we found that the memories that we reactivated for spatial information were words like meao. When they see the cat and they have to learn the location of the cat, they get the same sound an another 25 sounds during sleep. And then their memory for locations is improved,. For those specific memories that il be reactivated with those specific sounds. Not a lot of information might come in while you're asleep, ecreause doesn't mean