Week In Science

Sleep Strengthens Memories And Makes Them Resistant To Interfering Information is a Science Daily article discussing the relationship between sleep and memory and citing a related study reported in the July 12th issue of Current Biology by Jeffrey Ellenbogen and colleagues. Evidence was produced indicating that sleep improves the capacity to remember information. Intervening sleep between learning and testing led to enhanced memory of recently learned word pairs. The full article is linked.

Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA; Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School and Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA; Justin C. Hulbert of the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR; David F. Dinges and Sharon L. Thompson-Schill of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA were involved in the cited research.