Re: Sleep

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 03:44:19 MST


hal@finney.org writes:

> If it is late in the evening, I have memories of the day's events, and
> also memories of the previous day's events. The former are somewhat
> sharper and more detailed, typically, which seems normal because they
> are more recent.

Yes. Many models of memory consolidation doesn't hinge on it being
done in the sleep - it could be done when daydreaming, idling or just
doing something which we don't think of. The people fond of
correlating the theta rhythm in hippocampus with memory (I'm not :-)
point out that it is present during some situations rather than
others, which might suggest that we have two "modes".

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