Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep.
Pin‐Chun Chen, Hamid Niknazar, William A. Alaynick, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara Carole Mednick
The paper shows sleep involves competition between long-term and working memory processes, with a switch mechanism affecting cognitive performance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Dec 13, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience