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Asleep or awake we retain memory

Sleeping helps to reinforce what we`ve learned. And brain scans have revealed that cerebral activity associated with learning new information is replayed during sleep. But, in a study published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Philippe Peigneux and colleagues at the University of Liege demonstrate for the first time that the brain doesn`t wait until night to structure information. Day and night, the brain doesn`t stop (re)working what we learn.