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    Sleep helps improve memory in several ways. The brain goes through different sleep stages including REM and non-REM sleep, during which new memories are consolidated from the hippocampus to the neocortex for long-term storage. An experiment showed that when rats were given drugs to prevent brain-wave activity during sleep after learning a maze, they had trouble remembering the route, as the new information could not transfer from the hippocampus to be stored in the neocortex. Understanding how sleep aids memory formation provides insight into improving one's own memory.

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    Sleep helps improve memory in several ways. The brain goes through different sleep stages including REM and non-REM sleep, during which new memories are consolidated from the hippocampus to the neocortex for long-term storage. An experiment showed that when rats were given drugs to prevent brain-wave activity during sleep after learning a maze, they had trouble remembering the route, as the new information could not transfer from the hippocampus to be stored in the neocortex. Understanding how sleep aids memory formation provides insight into improving one's own memory.

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    Sleep helps improve memory in several ways. The brain goes through different sleep stages including REM and non-REM sleep, during which new memories are consolidated from the hippocampus to the neocortex for long-term storage. An experiment showed that when rats were given drugs to prevent brain-wave activity during sleep after learning a maze, they had trouble remembering the route, as the new information could not transfer from the hippocampus to be stored in the neocortex. Understanding how sleep aids memory formation provides insight into improving one's own memory.

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    Sleep and memory

    The communicative purpose of the author is to explain how sleep helps the
    memory.
    This reading shows all the information of how sleep helps to improve the
    memory. Many people think that sleep was important for memory. Scientists
    have known about long term memories, but they weren’t sure how they were
    formed. The average adult has different sleep stages: REM (rapid eye
    movement) sleep, and three stages of non-REM sleep: stage 1, 2 and 3. One
    example of the hippocampus and the neocortex is with rats. Scientists trained
    them to learn a route in a maze, then they let them sleep and gave drugs to
    some of the rats that stopped brain-wave activity. As a result, those same rats
    have trouble remembering the route, and the cause was that the new
    information was unable to leave the hippocampus and go to the neocortex.
    I think this is a very important reading for me because it will help me to improve
    my memory.

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