Focus – Sleep & Memory

April 22, 2016

Image from NSF video on connection between memory and sleep

Summary

Principal Investigators: Kenneth Norman, Princeton University and Ken Paller, Northwestern University
Title: Sleep’s role in determining the fate of individual memories.
BRAIN Category: Individuality and Variation

This project will integrate multiple independent lines of work in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computer science in order to investigate the precise mechanisms undergone by recently-formed memory representations as a person sleeps

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