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08/15/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Scientists explain why we easily forget our dreams

Don’t you just hate that nagging feeling of having an awesome dream but being unable to remember any of it? Scientists say it’s not that you have a weak memory – it’s just how your brain works. It’s something that happens to most people. According to Thomas Andrillon, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Melbourne, […]

06/11/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Memory strengthening TMR technique found to be more successful when accompanied with undisturbed sleep to promote memory consolidation

Targeted memory reactivation (TMR), a procedure which presents learning-related cues during sleep, can better strengthen memory when it is accompanied with undisturbed sleep to encourage memory consolidation, according to a study in the journal Sleep Spindles & Cortical Up States. Previous studies have shown that an undisturbed short plastic period after cueing is needed for […]

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