Sleep and Memory Consolidation
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Memory consolidation during sleep stabilizes newly learned material into more durable long-term storage.
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Participants who sleep after learning a word list recall more of it than participants who stay awake the same hours.
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Sleep does not add material that was never encoded. It stabilizes what encoding already captured.