Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to ...

Scientists have known for a while that sleep helps to strengthen previously acquired memories. But can we learn in our sleep? Although the state is characterized by loss of consciousness and a lack of ...

One of sleep’s key functions is to stabilize and integrate new memories into our brain’s long-term memory systems, a process known as "consolidation." This idea is now widely accepted, though it ...

Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward and motivation while we're awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new. The findings challenge ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We have evolved a sleep cycle that goes from non-REM to REM sleep and back again, but until now, the biological function of this oscillation was ...