{"id":106906,"date":"2020-05-11T04:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-can-see-how-the-brain-records-our-memories-as-we-sleep"},"modified":"2020-05-11T04:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:44:59","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-can-see-how-the-brain-records-our-memories-as-we-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-can-see-how-the-brain-records-our-memories-as-we-sleep","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, scientists can see how the brain records our memories as we sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-can-see-how-the-brain-records-our-memories-as-we-sleep2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2014 Scientists have long known our brains need sleep to review the day\u2019s events and transfer them into longer-term memories. Students are often told to study just before turning in to maximize their recall of material for a test the next day.<\/p>\n<p>But the exact way in which the brain stores our memories is poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the first time, tiny microelectrodes planted inside the brains of two people show just how the brain\u2019s neurons fire during sleep to \u201creplay\u201d our short-term memories in order to move them into more permanent storage. The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/fulltext\/S2211-1247(20)30530-1\" target=\"_blank\">published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Scientists have long known our brains need sleep to review the day\u2019s events and transfer them into longer-term memories. Students are often told to study just before turning in to maximize their recall of material for a test the next day. But the exact way in which the brain stores our memories is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}