Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biological clock Getty Images/nambitomo Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, ...

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Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...