BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep
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How Important Is Consciousness to Making Memories?
We are continuing to consolidate what we've learned into our memories while we sleep. When i consciously remember what i did yesterday, or i consciously remember some facts that i know, i can think about it in this more complex way because i'm bringing a lot of additional knowledge to bear,. So i think that's fundamentally different at the time of retrieval. But you're your question also brought up, what happens before retrieval? To actually form a memory and then maintain it for some period of time and then retrieve it, a lot of that is happening under the hood. We could call it met a memory, some knowledge of the fact that you're remembering at the time.
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