Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Memory - Research Video

University of Chicago researchers discover that sleep stabilizes memories in starlings, replicating similar findings in humans. The research, published in The Journal of Neuroscience on January 13, 2010, creates an opportunity to better understand how the brain stores memories in humans and birds.

CORRECTION: Timothy Brawn is a graduate student in the Integrative Neuroscience in Psychology program, not Neurobiology.

http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2010/01/13/bird-sleep-human-memory-video/

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• neurobiology
• neuroscience
• psychology
• birdsong
• starlings
• uchicago
• learning
• memory
• learning and memory
• consolidation
• research
• science
• journal of neuroscience
• sleep
• university of chicago
• medical center
• ucmc
• behavior
• animal model
• daniel margolish
• timothy brawn
• howard nusbaum

[happinesson]

body needs rest as well as mind needs sleep for a person to be productive.

[helloakayan]

That starling was a hero.

[shodanxx]

also nice "Grid illusion" shirt ;)

[shodanxx]

this may be more than 20 years old

there's that saying that goes something like "sleep on it" and that will somehow give you a better picture of something that is of importance to you

I wonder how conscious our culture was of that fact before it was researched on it as part of this study

serious implication for those who have sleep deficiencies then and we need a better way to diagnose and treat those persons in an ethical manner

what is the nominal time before information loss is permanent

[irob160614]

great work.