Open AccessMemory Consolidation Is Similar in Waking and Sleep
Author(s) -
Jerome M. Siegel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current sleep medicine reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.647
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 2198-6401
DOI - 10.1007/s40675-020-00199-3
Subject(s) - memory consolidation , consolidation (business) , psychology , sleep (system call) , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , hippocampus , computer science , accounting , business , operating system
I review the current status of the hypothesis that sleep is critically involved in memory consolidation and conclude that there are major methodological problems with the studies used to support this hypothesis.