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Brown: Study Helps to Settle Debate on Roles of REM and Non-REM Sleep in Visual Learning
July 20, 2020
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 20 -- Brown University issued the following news release:

Which sleep stage is most important for learning: REM or non-REM? Does sleep improve learning by enhancing skills while people snooze, or by cementing those skills in the brain so that they're less likely to forget them? Do these processes occur every time someone sleeps, or only after they have learned something new?

The answer to these questions, according to a new study on v . . .

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