The Neural Persistence of Memory: Retention Begins While You're Still Awake

Abstract

Brain regions activated while learning a task is linked (reactivated) during sleep. The brain is recompartmentalizing for memory retention while sleeping. Author calls this sleep "off-line activity". This off-line activity processes acquired information into lon-term stroage form (memory consolidation process). Sleep plays a role in the relationship between behavioral performance and functionallity brain activity for processing acquired memories.