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While earlier studies have supported the idea that sleep aids in memory consolidation, Wamsley said that the team was particularly interested in studies where rodents showed identical patterns of neural activity both when navigating through a maze and when sleeping afterward. The researchers, led by Medical School psychiatry professor Robert A. Stickgold, sought to investigate this phenomenon in humans...
...these memories are replaying during sleep, is that going to be consciously experienced?" Wamsley said...
More importantly, said Wamsley, experimental participants who spontaneously reported dreaming about the maze showed markedly better performance...
According to Wamsley, the subjects who dreamed about the maze generally performed below average on the first task and performed on par with the rest of the participants for the second task. But after controlling for the poor baseline performance of the dreaming group, their improvement was significantly higher than the other participating groups...
...Wamsley said she thought that the initial poor performance of the dreaming group "could be causing them to both dream about it and improve a lot later...