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Cortical plasticity: learning while you sleep?
1Cardiff School of Biosciences, Museum Avenue, P.O. Box 911, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK. SengpielF@cf.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|August 30, 2001
Abstract:
Sleep has been suggested to facilitate memory consolidation or learning, but there has been little direct evidence of a link between synaptic plasticity and sleep. A recent study suggests a role for sleep in the plastic changes that the visual cortex undergoes in response to occlusion of one eye early in life.