Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories.

For several years now, sleep research has been focusing intensively on the question of whether targeted auditory stimulation ...

Sleep is far from an inactive time for the brain: while rats (and humans) are asleep, neurons in the hippocampus fire rapidly. After a rat has repeatedly moved from one spot to another, the same ...