{"id":216862,"date":"2025-06-29T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/sleep-helps-stitch-memories-into-cognitive-maps-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough"},"modified":"2025-06-29T21:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:05:21","slug":"sleep-helps-stitch-memories-into-cognitive-maps-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/sleep-helps-stitch-memories-into-cognitive-maps-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Sleep helps stitch memories into cognitive maps, according to new neuroscience breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleep-helps-stitch-memories-into-cognitive-maps-according-to-new-neuroscience-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual places\u2014it also requires sleep. The study highlights how weakly tuned neurons gradually become synchronized to encode space as a connected whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that forming a mental map of a new environment takes more than just recognizing individual places\u2014it also requires sleep. The study highlights how weakly tuned neurons gradually become synchronized to encode space as a connected whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216862","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}