New York: A good night’s sleep is essential for people to store new memories, says a new study.
Neurons, the brain cells that help store new memories during the day, reorganize themselves when a person gets a better night’s sleep, the researchers reported in the journal Science.
Zahara Oliva, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University in New York, said the procedure allows the brain to rewire neurons to learn new memories and experiences the next day.
He said that this process revolves around the hippocampus, a region of the brain. This is a region of the brain that is important for the ability to store memories in humans.
Learning something or engaging in a new experience activates neurons in the hippocampus and stores the events as memories.
