{"id":221881,"date":"2025-09-15T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/harvard-scientists-pinpoint-how-sleep-stabilizes-memory-in-fascinating-neuroscience-breakthrough"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:02:57","slug":"harvard-scientists-pinpoint-how-sleep-stabilizes-memory-in-fascinating-neuroscience-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/harvard-scientists-pinpoint-how-sleep-stabilizes-memory-in-fascinating-neuroscience-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Harvard scientists pinpoint how sleep stabilizes memory in fascinating neuroscience breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-pinpoint-how-sleep-stabilizes-memory-in-fascinating-neuroscience-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from Harvard scientists suggests that sleep helps the brain strengthen newly learned motor skills by boosting spindle activity in the exact regions involved during learning. The greater the increase in this activity, the more participants improved after napping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Harvard scientists suggests that sleep helps the brain strengthen newly learned motor skills by boosting spindle activity in the exact regions involved during learning. The greater the increase in this activity, the more participants improved after napping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221881","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}