Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes. In adults, sleep has a huge influence on memory. Sleep speeds learning of new skills. It also helps to separate ...

Our brains have an extraordinary ability to adapt and learn, a process known as neuroplasticity. From navigating a new city to mastering a new skill, neuroplasticity allows us to reshape our neural ...

Parents know that perhaps the toughest part of having young children is getting them to take their naps. Although those precious few minutes, or hopefully even hours, are crucial for the stability of ...

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Sleep is an integral, yet often overlooked, part of a Princeton students daily schedule. But, what does our brain actually do when it’s asleep? This is a research focus of Princeton Computational ...

We know that quality sleep is integral to our overall health, and now a new study suggests that it also plays a significant ...

We spend roughly a third of our lives doing something that, for most of history, scientists treated as a kind of placeholder — a passive state between the real work of being awake. That assumption has ...

Firing patterns that represent synchronous activity during sleep and desynchronous activity during wakefulness were generated by simulation in a neural network where 10 presynaptic neurons are ...

It’s the middle of the night. Your body is still, your breathing slow. While you dream of forgotten high school exams and flying through cityscapes, something remarkable is happening in your brain.

Discover how your brain "cleans" itself at night, and why researchers say sleeping a certain way could play a role.