Psychology / Unit 3 Psych 0310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sleep and Memory Consolidation
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The idea
Memory consolidation during sleep stabilizes newly learned material into more durable long-term storage.
In practice
Participants who sleep after learning a word list recall more of it than participants who stay awake the same hours.
Where people slip
Sleep does not add material that was never encoded. It stabilizes what encoding already captured.
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