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Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? It appears that this is because the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two.
Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? Sleep science holds clues
Research in mice points towards a mechanism that avoids ‘catastrophic forgetting’.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? It appears that this is because the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two.
Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...