Sentences with phrase «as sleep spindles»

Stage 2 lasts slightly longer, around 20 minutes, and is marked by rapid bursts of rhythmic brain activity known as sleep spindles.

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While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»

As a memory is being consolidated, Muller and Sejnowski hypothesize, circular sleep spindle waves help form the links between these different aspects of a single memory.

«We know that sleep spindles are involved in declarative memory — explicit information we recall about the world, such as places, people and events,» she explained.

Now researchers reporting in Current Biology on March 8 have found that sleep spindles also play a role in strengthening new memories when newly learned information is played back to a person as they sleep.

As expected, the researchers saw that memory cues led to an increase in sleep spindles.