Studies in animals also
linked sleep spindles to the process by which the brain makes new connections.
Not exact matches
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.
But many questions about the
link between
sleep spindles and reactivated memories during
sleep remained.
The
spindle - thalamus
link made it «logical that the
sleep spindle would play a role in regulating sensory input while we
sleep,» says Jeffrey Ellenbogen, a
sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.